Tourists ran for their lives to escape a massive ball of snow hurtling towards them at a popular tourist destination.

Smartphone footage recorded at the Kadinggou Scenic Spot in the city of Nyingchi, in China's Tibet Autonomous Region, showed the petrified tourists recording the surroundings on March 8.

Just moments later, upon realising the imminent danger coming from an approaching ball of snow, they can be seen hastily fleeing to evade being struck.

They were saved after the mound was blocked by the terrace's wooden fence, which was utterly destroyed in the incident.

Kadinggou Scenic Spot staff later reported that such incidents are common and occur every year. They added that nobody was injured at the time.