The Alpine village of Blatten was buried after the Birch glacier collapsed on Wednesday, May 28 A 64-year-old man went missing when the majority of a Swiss village was swallowed after a glacier ...

BLATTEN, Switzerland (AP) — 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 ...

A landslide near Blatten, Switzerland submerged an entire village in the Swiss Alps, leaving most of the homes and buildings under a mass of brown sludge. It happened after a large chunk of the Birch ...

On Wednesday, May 28, 2025, a large portion of the Birch Glacier in Switzerland partially collapsed and released a chunk of ice that set off an enormous landslide, largely burying the village of ...

A 64-year-old man went missing when the majority of a Swiss village was swallowed after a glacier collapsed on Wednesday, May 28, authorities said Blatten has been buried and "the damage is ...

The Alpine village of Blatten was buried after the Birch glacier collapsed on Wednesday, May 28 Becca Longmire is a digital news writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2024.