A survivor of a snowstorm in Chile, which left a British woman and four other tourists dead, has described the desperate attempts to save his fellow hikers.

Christian Aldridge told UK Tonight with Sarah-Jane Mee of his "devastation" at losing friend Victoria Bond , 40, in the incident.

Telling of the desperate scenes, he described how a volunteer rescue party used a homemade stretcher to recover one of the missing hikers.

Five bodies were recovered on Tuesday after a powerful snowstorm hit the Patagonia region inside Torres del Paine National Park.

Mr Aldridge, 41, from Newquay in Cornwall, was with Ms Bond and three other British friends hoping to complete the O Circuit hiking trail.

They were part of a larger group of around 30 as they trekked through the famous John Gardn

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