Video on social media and Swiss TV showed the mudslide near Blatten, in the southern Lötschental valley, with homes and buildings partially submerged under a mass of brownish sludge.

Mayoraz said a blockage 2km long had formed in the valley floor, where the Lonza river flows, with a small lake growing behind it. “It’s like a small mountain,” he said.

Footage of the collapse on Wednesday afternoon shows a huge cloud of dust and ice descending through a plush green valley where it smothered Blatten, a village of 300 surrounded on all sides by ...

A huge chunk of a glacier in the Swiss Alps broke off on Wednesday afternoon, causing a deluge of ice, mud and rock to bury part of a mountain village evacuated earlier this month due to the risk ...

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A large avalanche with a mixture of ice, rock, snow and water reaching the valley floor is pictured in Wiler after the Birch glacier collapsed above Blatten, Switzerland, Wednesday, May 28, 2025 ...

The small village of Blatten and its surroundings in the Bietschhorn mountain of the Swiss Alps, Switzerland on May 29, 2025 after it was destroyed the previous day by a landslide after part of the ...