Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) officials have released a video that shows the final moments of eight mountaineers who were swept away by an avalanche.<br /><br />The international team consisting of four Britons, two Americans, one Australian and an Indian were attempting to climb Nanda Devi, the second-highest mountain in India.<br /><br />They changed course on May 26 to climb a remote peak near Pithoragarh where they were killed in an avalanche. <br /><br />Nearly a month after the incident, on June 23, an ITBP search team retrieved the bodies of the seven mountaineers - John McLaren, Rupert Whewell and Richard Payne (Britons), Anthony Sudekum and Ronald Beimel (US nationals), Ruth McCance (Australian) and Chetan Pandey (Indian).<br /><br />An eighth climber, the British team leader Martin Moran, is still missing. <br /><br />The video was retrieved from a helmet-mounted Go pro camera, which was found buried in the snow close to the area where the bodies were found. <br /><br />The footage shows the climbers ascending a snow-clad track and ends with a loud thud. ITBP officials said the sound could be of the avalanche that claimed their lives. <br /><br />"Suddenly we notice a loud noise. The video goes blank and stops," said Vivek Kumar Pandey, spokesman for the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP).
