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A neighbour's doorbell security camera has captured the moment a helicopter spun out of control and crashed in the front yard of a home in central California, hurting a pilot and passenger.

The helicopter clipped the edge of the house and sheared off the top of a palm tree before crashing and coming to rest on its side in southeast Fresno around 10am Saturday, said police Lt. Charlie Chamalbide.

Two men aboard, the 47-year-old pilot and a 33-year-old passenger, were hospitalised with minor injuries, Chamalbide said. Nobody on the ground was hurt.

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The aircraft was a surveying helicopter on a test run, the lieutenant said.

He did not have information about who owned it or who the occupants were working for.

“They heard a pop and then they started losing altitude — that’s as far as we know,” Chamalbide told reporters.

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Neicy Miramontes told the Fresno Bee that her 9-year-old son, Ezekiel Carranco, was walking to a friend’s house when he saw the helicopter in trouble.

“All of a sudden he looks up and sees the helicopter spinning and after that he heard a loud boom,” she said.

The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating the accident.

A major avalanche has steamrolled base camp at Manaslu, taking out dozens of climbers' tents on the world's eighth-highest mountain.

Dramatic footage captured by Tashi-Lakpa Sherpa showed the large avalanche rumbling down the 8163-metre Himalayan peak and hitting a hopelessly exposed base camp.

No fatalities or injuries have been confirmed.

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Mountaineers, Sherpa and workers are seen scrambling for safety in the footage, and voices can be heard frantically urging people to "get inside".

Tashi told 9news.com.au via message the avalanche hit at 9:37 am today (local time).

Writing in a post on Instagram, Tashi said the avalanche destroyed around six camps and more than 30 tents.

Manaslu, regarded as the world's fifth most dangerous mountain, had been hit by heavy snowfall recently, he wrote.

Last week an avalanche which struck above Camp III, killed one guide and injured 13 climbers who had been heading for the summit.

Manaslu claimed another life last week, too.

Renowned US extreme skier Hilaree Nelson was attempting to ski down from the summit when she fell off the mountain.

Jiban Ghimire Ghimire of Shangri-La Treks told Everest Chronicle Nelson, 49, lost an edge a few metres below the summit.

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Nelson fell off the vertical side of the peak, he said, while estimating it could have been a 3000-metre freefall.

Rescuers searching by helicopter located Nelson's body on Wednesday after failing to find her on Tuesday and Monday, when bad weather hampered their search.

Hundreds of climbers and local Sherpas are attempting to reach the summit during Nepal's autumn climbing season.