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Horrifying moment massive avalanche overwhelms group of snowmobilers on Utah mountain...

• https://www.dailymail.co, By ARIEL ZILBER

Cell phone footage has captured the terrifying moment a group of snowmobilers got caught in an avalanche while riding in the Uinta Mountains in Utah on Saturday.

Miles Penrose, two of his brothers, and some friends were snowmobiling in an area that they knew well when they started to feel what at first was thought to be an earthquake.

'As I turned and looked up, I could see the snow wave coming,' he wrote on his social media page.

'My brother's back was turned and I screamed "avalanche" as loud as I could.'

One member of the group managed to capture the entire event with his cell phone.

Some in the group were either fully or partially buried, among them Penrose's younger brother, Hunter.

'There is no worse feeling than having your little brother buried,' wrote Penrose, who managed to dig his brother out of the snow.

Penrose describe the harrowing moments as he saw the avalanche approaching.

'A second later the snow hit and the swimming started,' Penrose wrote. 

'Somehow I only moved about 20 yards and stayed on top of the snow (MIRACLE).


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