People running when avalanche descended directly into the Gegsky waterfall near Lake Ritsa in Abkhazia. (@jeeptourofabkhazia/New
People running when avalanche descended directly into the Gegsky waterfall near Lake Ritsa in Abkhazia. (@jeeptourofabkhazia/New

This is the moment a huge waterfall is replaced by an avalanche of snow that floods over the side of a cliff before forming a huge mound on the mountainside below in remote Abkhazia.The footage was filmed by local tourist guide Ruslan at the 70-metre (230-foot) Gegsky waterfall in the self-governing but largely unrecognised state of Abkhazia on the Black Sea in late March.

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