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A terrified couple thought it was 'the end' when they saw an avalanche hurtling towards them while trekking at the bottom of a steep valley near Everest.
Holly Cowie, from London, and Axel Haudiquet, from France, were hiking near Langtang Village in Nepal when they were caught in the avalanche trigged by an earthquake.
As the pair ran under a tree for safety, they captured terrifying footage showing the earth shaking and a cloud of dust rising into the sky before the avalanche hit.
Speaking to the Smithsonian, two years after the incident, Holly said: 'There was a loud roaring.
'I looked back up the valley towards Langtang, the village itself, and could see a big cloud approaching.
'Amongst this, the roar of the wind. It then went dark.'
The couple's footage shows the mountainside shaking violently as the earthquake got worse.
Looking up the mountain, a large cloud of smoke rises through the trees and rocks fall down the crags.
Holly and Axel scrambled behind a tree and clung on to the branch in a bid to protect themselves.
The couple were submerged in dirt and debris when the avalanche hit and the pair feared for their lives.
Axel said: 'I remember seeing the leaves of the trees shaking.
'I didn't know what it was. And then the earth moved.
'For a second I thought "oh cool, it's an earthquake." First time in my life I experienced an earthquake.
'We were probably in the worst place you want to be for an earthquake because we were at the bottom of a steep valley.
'Then I realised something was coming towards us.
'I couldn't see Holly and I had no idea where I was. That's it. It's the end. I was terrified.'
Holly and Axel had arrived in Nepal ten days earlier and were caught in the 7.8 magnitude earthquake.
The earthquake and avalanche killed around 9,000 people on April 25 2015, destroying Langtang Village.
She told MailOnline in 2015: 'I didn't think earthquake, I don't know what I thought it was. We ran a bit left and then right, it was hard to know where to go as we couldn't see anything coming for us.
'Luckily my boyfriend twigged what was happening and we ran for a bush and knelt behind it.
'It was really noisy and things were falling all around us. A big stone fell next to us and split in two.
'It was really calm when the earthquake stopped shaking but we knew we weren't safe and ran to a bigger tree.
'When I looked up the valley there was a billowing brown cloud coming straight for us down the valley. I had no idea what it could be.'
After the the couple found their guide, they made their way down the mountain and found other tourists who were badly injured, including an Australian believed to ahve broken her back.
Holly said she burst into tears when she was offered a chocolate bar and when they reached the British Embassy in Kathmandu.
The couple had planned to spend a few weeks in India but cut their trip short because of the earthquake.
Holly said she had a white scarf given to travellers for luck tied to her backpack also survived the quake.