Geneva — The search for a 64-year-old man was suspended Thursday due to unsafe conditions after a huge mass of rock and ice from a glacier crashed down a Swiss mountainside the day before. The ...
This year in the disaster-stricken Lötschental, the traditional Tschäggättä procession did not start in the Swiss village of Blatten, but in Wiler.
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 ...
The glaciers of the Alps are receding, retreating, even collapsing. Why is it happening? What is the impact on those who love ...
(MENAFN- Swissinfo) Two weeks after a massive landslide wiped out most of the mountain village of Blatten in the Swiss Alps, talk of reconstruction is picking up, but huge challenges remain. A ...
A glacier collapse has caused major damage to a town in Switzerland. Blatten, Switzerland, was deluged and engulfed by ice, mud, and rock after Birch Glacier collapsed in Bietschhorn mountains.
BLATTEN, Switzerland — When a devastating landslide all but swallowed his Swiss village and toppled his three-generation family-owned hotel in May, Lukas Kalbermatten was overwhelmed by a sense of ...
A small village is "under rubble" after a glacier partially collapsed in the Swiss Alps this week, causing a mudslide. An official stated that 90% of the village of Blatten, with an estimated ...
The Swiss village of Blatten has been partially destroyed, leaving several homes fully flattened after a huge section of a glacier fell down onto the valley floor. Thankfully, the village had been ...
Residents have told of their devastation after a landslide destroyed the vast majority of a village in Switzerland. Around 90% of the picturesque village of Blatten was engulfed in ice, mud and rock ...