TwitterのTLをのんびり眺めていると、キルギスのジューク氷河の崩壊に巻き込まれた人の動画が流れてきました。
オリジナルの投稿
オリジナルの投稿はInstagramに存在しました。スプートニクの記事から飛びましたが、転載されまくりそうな動画にしては割とすぐに見つかり、分かった瞬間にツイートしました。動画はこちらです。さらにその動画に付けられている説明文を以下に置いておきます。
9 Brits and 1 American on a guided tour of the Tian Shan mountains in Kyrgyzstan. We’d just reached the highest point in the trek and I separated from the group to take pictures on top of a hill/cliff edge. While I was taking pictures I heard the sound of deep ice cracking behind me. This is where the video starts. I’d been there for a few minutes already so I knew there was a spot for shelter right next to me. I was on a cliff edge, so I could only run away from the shelter (hence why I don’t move). Yes I left it to the last second to move, and yes I know it would have been safer moving to the shelter straight away. I’m very aware that I took a big risk. I felt in control, but regardless, when the snow started coming over and it got dark / harder to breath, I was bricking it and thought I might die.
Behind the rock it was like being inside a blizzard. Once it was over the adrenaline rush hit me hard. I was only covered in a small layer of snow, without a scratch. I felt giddy. I knew the rest of the group was further away from the avalanche so should be okay. When I re-joined them I could see they were all safe, although one had cut her knee quite badly (she rode one of the horses to the nearest medical facility). Another had fallen off a horse and sustained some light bruising.
The whole group was laughing and crying, happy to be alive (including the girl who cut her knee). It was only later we realised just how lucky we’d been. If we had walked 5 minutes further on our trek, we would all be dead. If you look carefully in the video, you can see the faint grey trail winding through the grass. That was the path. We traversed it afterwards, walking among massive ice boulders and rocks that had been thrown much further than we could have run, even if we acted immediately. To make it worse, the path runs alongside a low ridge, hiding the mountain from view, so we would have only heard the roar before lights out.
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関連報道
- Foreign tourists escape glacier collapse on Juuku pass in Issyk-Kul region - AKIpress
- Two tourists injured as a result of glacier collapse in Juuku gorge - AKIpress
- Video: British Hiker Captures Nearing Avalanche After Taking Shelter Last Minute in Kyrgyzstan - Sputnik
まとめ
上記の説明文と関連報道を読む限り、
- キルギスの天山山脈でトレッキングをしていた
- 頂上に近づき、撮影者はイギリス人9人、アメリカ人1人のガイドツアーから離れ写真撮影
- 氷の割れる音を聞いたことから動画撮影スタート
- 避難場所は分かっていたが、崖っぷちにいたので限界まで動かなかった ←？？？
- 岩の裏側では吹雪のような感覚だったが撮影者は無事
- ケガをした二人は、膝を切ってしまったのと落馬によるもの
みたいな感じらしいです。
最後に
明らかに煽りのようなタイトルになってしまいましたが、事実なのでしょうがないでしょう。
とはいえこのような重力流に巻き込まれると、ケガで済む方が珍しいと感じます。重力流に巻き込まれて亡くなった方は、日本だけでも川崎ローム層や雲仙普賢岳、近年では2014年の御嶽山にもいらっしゃいました。もし巻き込まれることが予見可能な場合、逃げられるのなら逃げてください。
