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A skier has filmed the spectacular moment a glacier collapsed and fell down a mountain in an avalanche of ice and rock.

Ryan Taylor, 22, captured the breathtaking scene in Mount Cook National Park, in New Zealand, just feet from where he stood.

The clip begins with a few large rocks breaking away and falling down the cliff face.

A huge mountain of snow then follows, before the rest of the mountainside begins to cascade down into the glacier below.

Read more:Meet the woman who survived an AVALANCHE

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Ryan can be heard laughing as he films it - both in amazement at the stunning spectacle he is witnessing and the fact he was about to ski down that very descent.

"I don't know if I want to go down there anymore," he says. "It's huge. It's flying."

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The avalanche takes on the appearance of a river, flowing down the mountain like a powerful waterfall.

'It is still flowing down there, crazy," Ryan adds. "The mountainside is going to collapse.'



