A year after glacier collapse, Blatten residents rebuild lives in Swiss Alps

By Marleen Kaesebier, Denis Balibouse and Cecile Mantovani WILER, Switzerland, May 26 (Reuters) - Hotel Momentum stands above ...
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This Swiss village has been swamped and now it's snowed under. They're slowly digging their way out

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 ...

The Swiss Alps Reckon With the Threat of Collapsing Glaciers

We don’t live in an easy landscape.” As climate change leads to collapsing glaciers and mudslides, some in Switzerland ...
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Blatten marks glacier collapse one year on

The Valais village of Blatten marked one year since the glacier collapse buried most of the community. One year ago, around ...
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Man, 64, Missing After Majority of Swiss Village Is Swallowed by 'Gigantic Landslide' Following Glacier Collapse

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 ...

One year on, mayor says hope has returned to buried Swiss village

One year after the destruction of the small Swiss village of Blatten in a massive landslide, reconstruction efforts are in ...
BBC

The Swiss village wiped off the map by a glacier

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, ...
Men's Journal

Catastrophic Glacier Collapse Buries Iconic Alpine Village

View post: I Stayed at Southern Utah’s Most Anticipated New Volcanic Resort. It’s the Ultimate Secret Backdoor to Zion A catastrophic glacier collapse tore through the Swiss Alpine village of Blatten ...
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Striking Satellite Images Show Swiss Village Buried by Landslide

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 ...
USA Today

Photos show Swiss village buried in debris after glacier collapse

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 ...
Newsday

A river dammed by a huge Swiss landslide is flowing again. That's a relief to authorities

GENEVA — A small Alpine river dammed by a landslide that largely buried the Swiss village of Blatten is now flowing through the debris, and the level of a newly created lake that raised worries about ...
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This Swiss village has been swamped and now it’s snowed under. They’re slowly digging their way out

BLATTEN – 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 emptiness before ...