At least one person was missing after a landslide wiped out 90 percent of Blatten, which was home to roughly 300 residents ...

The Birch Glacier above the village of Blatten collapsed and caused a landslide that has buried most of the village.

A massive glacier collapse hit Blatten in the Swiss Alps on May 28, 2025. Evacuations saved lives, but one person is missing.

A small village is "under rubble" after a glacier partially collapsed in the Swiss Alps this week, causing a mudslide. An ...

Birch Glacier above the Swiss village of Blatten broke off, causing a landslide that destroyed the village. A herd of cows got evacuated via helicopter for a ride of a lifetime to get to safety.

Video on social media and Swiss TV showed the mudslide near Blatten, in the southern Lötschental valley, with homes and ...

The extent of the damage to Blatten had no precedent in the Swiss Alps in the current or previous century, he added. The rubble of shattered wooden buildings could be seen on the flanks of the ...

The landslide flattened homes in the Alpine town of Blatten. A village in the Swiss Alps has been buried beneath ice, rock and mud after a massive piece of a nearby glacier collapsed. On Wednesday ...

For days, the inhabitants of Blatten, a village in the Swiss Alps, had been warned by geologists that an unstable glacier high above their homes could collapse. On Wednesday afternoon, days after ...

A picturesque Swiss town was buried after part of a glacier broke off and came sliding down a mountain in the Alps. Officials ...