Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Man, 64, Missing After Majority of Swiss Village Is Swallowed by 'Gigantic Landslide' Following Glacier Collapse A 64-year-old man ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This afternoon, a massive avalanche of ice, mud, and rock buried the picturesque Swiss village of Blatten. It was triggered when a ...

90 percent of the Swiss village is buried or destroyed. A catastrophic glacier collapse tore through the Swiss Alpine village of Blatten on Wednesday, May 28, in a chilling reminder of the growing ...

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 ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. A devastating May landslide in Swiss Alps village Blatten destroyed more than 90% of homes and buildings, killing ...

A chunk of the Birch glacier collapsed Wednesday, May 28, 2025, burying large portions of the small Swiss village, Blatten, under a mass of snow, ice, and debris, according to news reports. On May 19, ...

The village of Blatten has stood for centuries, then in seconds it was gone. Scientists monitoring the Nesthorn mountain above the village in recent weeks saw that parts of it had begun to crumble, ...

On the afternoon of 28 May, a massive glacier avalanche destroyed the idyllic village of Blatten in the Valais region of Switzerland. Footage of the disaster rapidly circulated around the world, ...