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Scary footage captures the moment skiers were buried under an avalanche on Christmas Day.
Up to 10 people were thought to be missing based on the video of the dramatic scene on a ski trail in the Austrian Alps.
But it later emerged a number of them had escaped and travelled down the mountain into the valley.
They hadn’t reported their involvement and it took police hours to find out the truth about the incident, near the town of Zuers.
Officers have said ‘according to the current state of information, it can be assumed that no further persons are missing’.
One partially buried man was recovered and suffered serious injuries.
Three people suffered minor injuries, with 200 rescuers deployed to search the area overall.
The snow took out several skiers in seconds (Picture: @stevebreake/CEN)
Rescuers work on the mountain near the town of Zuers (Picture: APA/AFP via Getty Images)
Police believe everyone has been found (Picture: EXPA/AFP via Getty Images/AFP)
The avalanche covered 500 yards of the trail near the 8,900ft (2,700m) Trittkopf mountain (Picture: EXPA/AFP via Getty Images/AFP)
The angry flow of snow takes out the skiers in a matter of seconds in the footage.
The avalanche covered 500 yards of the trail near the 8,900ft (2,700m) Trittkopf mountain, police in the Vorarlberg region said.
It came after days of heavy snow, followed by warm weather on Christmas Day.
The concerned mountain rescue service had rated the avalanche danger as high.
Explosives had been set off in that area beforehand to reduce the risk of an avalanche, the head of tourism in the Zuers and Lech am Arlberg region, Hermann Fercher, said.
Officers have launched an investigation into how the accident came about.
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Up to 10 people were thought to be missing in the avalanche on Christmas day.
