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

Flooding fears eased at picturesque Swiss Alpine village buried by landslide - A huge mass of rock, ice and mud from the Birch glacier thundered into the Lötschental valley ...

Authorities say a small Alpine river dammed by a landslide that largely buried the Swiss village of Blatten is now flowing ...

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 large portion of the Birch glacier In Switzerland, he detached himself, causing an ice, debris and mud that fully ...

Swiss authorities said Thursday that rock and ice piles from a collapsed glacier that destroyed a village were preventing ...

The remote Alpine village of Blatten was flattened after an avalanche of rock, mud and ice was sent crashing down into the ...

Switzerland’s president said evacuees from a village whose homes and businesses were destroyed by a dramatic landslide caused ...

The landslide sent plumes of dust skyward and coated with mud nearly all of an Alpine village that authorities had evacuated earlier this month as a precaution. State Councilor Stéphane Ganzer told ...

Swiss authorities said Friday that they were no longer considering evacuating most residents in the vicinity of a collapsed ...

The last major collapse above Blatten occurred early on Monday evening ... engineer for natural hazards in Upper Valais, on Monday afternoon. It is a matter of hours and not necessarily days ...

Similar to the experience of the residents in Brienz in canton Graubunden, this time it's Blatten in Valais. Around 300 people, and farm animals, were given just over an hour to leave their homes.