TikTok star gets trapped inside the ice, fetches 21 million views

New Delhi : A TikTok star almost encountered with death when he got trapped inside the ice sheet until he managed to find an escape till last second.

Jason Clark, who has over 4 lakh followers on TikTok, shared an Instagram post detailing his brush with death. While sharing the video, he wrote, "I have never been this close to dying."

In the video, he was seen taking a deep breath before jumping inside a frozen lake through a hole. A few seconds later he was seen losing his way. The footage shows him struggling to locate the opening, and, at one point, even trying to break the ice with his back.

He said that he became confused because the bottom of the ice did not look any different from the water at the hole.

"When I flipped around and felt solid ice I thought I was at the hole," wrote Jason Clark. However, when the TikTok star realised he wasn't at the hole, he decided to follow the dust he had kicked up, hoping it would lead him back to the opening.

Instead, he said, the "dust I kicked up had drifted and led me further away."

"I then tried to break the ice with my back, you can see in the video," he added, before saying that something made him turn around one last time - a decision that probably saved his life.

"I swung my hand at what I thought was just a lighter spot of ice and my hand came through. I then got a ton of energy to stand up," he said. The video shows him emerging from the hole and gasping for breath.

He also mentioned that the man who was shooting the video could not realize the severity of the incident and thought he was joking.

More than 21 million views have been fetched on the video.