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The destruction of the village served as a stark reminder to residents that dramatic collapses are becoming more frequent in ...
The Birch Glacier above the village of Blatten collapsed and caused a landslide that has buried most of the village.
The search for a 64-year-old man was suspended on Thursday after a huge mass of rock and ice from a glacier crashed down a ...
On Wednesday, a landslide from the mountain side of Birch Glacier -- located in the Lötschental valley in northern ...
A huge mass of rock and ice from a glacier has thundered down a Swiss Alpine mountainside. Authorities say it covered with ...
A Swiss Alpine village has been buried by a massive debris field after a glacier collapsed on a nearby mountain. Reuters reports that 90% of Blatten, Switzerland is engulfed by ice, mud, and rock ...
A small village is "under rubble" after a glacier partially collapsed in the Swiss Alps this week, causing a mudslide. An ...
Aerial footage showed flooded homes and debris scattered around a Swiss village after a huge mass of rock and ice from a ...
On May 28, a mass of rock, ice, mud and water crashed down on and buried the mountain village of Blatten in the Swiss canton ...
A glacier collapse in Switzerland unleashed a torrent of ice, rock, and mud that buried the Alpine village of Blatten.
Everything we know about the Blatten glacier collapse in Switzerland - The village was thankfully evacuated a few days ...