Tourists were hit by ice as a part of the glacier collapsed.

Tourists were hit by ice as a part of the glacier collapsed.

THIS is the terrifying moment a boat full of tourists came within a few metres of being engulfed by falling ice from a glacier.

Screams of panic can be heard as tourists are struck by ice while on a tour of the Tracy Arm Fjord - a deep fjord over 48km long in the Tracy Arm-Fords Terror Wilderness, Alaska.

One female tourist fell amid the panic and broke her leg, The Sun reports