About 1,000 tourists have been evacuated after being stranded in a remote mountain holiday village for days after avalanches in China.
Avalanches hit the Xinjiang region blocking access roads to Hemu village.
The area had been cut off for several days and work to clear the road of snow has been going on for about a week.
Heavy snowfall led to several avalanches covering some areas in more than seven metres of snow.
In the meantime, helicopters transported supplies to the stranded tourists and residents.
“This avalanche situation is relatively special, we have seen heavy snowfall before, but we have not seen such high frequency of avalanches,” the highway management bureau chief, Zhao Jinsheng said this week.
Those injured in the avalanches were first to be airlifted out.
At one point, about 200 miles of road were blocked by snow.
