Terrifying Avalanche Earthquake on Everest Base Camp Captured on Camera [WATCH]

By R. Siva Kumar - 27 Apr '15 19:31PM

One terrifying video posted on YouTube by German climber, Jost Kobusch, is horrific enough to shatter the viewer. Imagining the climbers at the Everest Base Camp stumbling about in the 7.9-magnitude earthquake on Saturday sounds impossible.

Kobusch can be heard saying "the ground is shaking," while laughing nervously at the start of the clip. The visibility was so poor, he was hardly able to see the slopes of the Himalayan Mountains, according to rt.

"The ground was shaking from the earthquake and as soon as we saw people running we were running ourselves to save our lives," Kobusch wrote in his description, according to huffingtonpost.

People began to scramble and yell, warning their friends and companions. However, the storm and wall of snow was unrelenting.

The climbers cursed and tried to take cover before a tent, but were quickly buried by snow. While the men in the video came through it, the avalanche killed 20 people and injured dozens. Some of the injured were evacuated by helicopters, yet others were unspared. Some 100 climbers were cut off from the Base Camp when the ice fell sharply around them.

Kobusch filmed the avalanche, RT's video agency Ruptly got the helmet camera footage of Belgian climber Jelle Veyt at the Base Camp and AFP photographer Roberto Schmidt got terrifying photographs of the huge walls of snow before he ran.

The following day, there was another 6.7-magnitude aftershock, with more avalanches. It came close to hitting their base camp at Mount Everest, but then avoided the spot. The disastrous earthquake killed 3,300, even as 6,200 were injured.

Watch the video below, but beware of strong language!