This is the moment a British tourist on a road trip with his family in Austria filmed a truck tentatively making its way through a giant snowdrift around 13-feet high.

Anthony Gibbon, from Carmarthenshire in southwest Wales, captured the remarkable scene on Monday (January 14) at the ski resort of Ischgl in western Austria.

Gibbon said that snowfall had amassed near a row of parked trucks that had to carve out a route through the giant snowdrifts.

Gibbon told Newsflare: "I was shocked because we had to leave [where we were staying] and as you could see it was an impossible mission.

"[My two] kids, on the other hand, were laughing and enjoying the snow."

Gibbon later added: "Since the snow was huge, we had to exit from behind where people who work at that [truck] depot or whatever it is were cleaning snow and they cleared a path for us.

"When we got out we had to wait for the road to be cleared fully so we waited there for two hours and that is when I recorded this video.

Local media have reported that the extreme weather conditions have affected locals and tourists in the area with up to 17,000 people cut off from the outside world.

Severe snowstorms have covered parts of central Europe in a huge blanket of snow over the last week.

Extreme snow in Austria surprised all!