The destruction of the village served as a stark reminder to residents that dramatic collapses are becoming more frequent in ...

Journey through one of Switzerland’s most beautiful alpine trails at Oeschinensee. With colorful wildflowers, rare orchids, and majestic wildlife like ibex and chamois, this immersive hike—recorded ...

In many countries, buying a home is slipping further out of reach for young people. Switzerland is no exception.

Villagers lost their entire livelihood within minutes. One former resident lost their wooden family house built in 1654.

Residents struggled to absorb the scale of devastation caused by a huge slab of glacier that buried most of their picturesque ...

On May 28 a huge chunk of a glacier in the Swiss Alps collapsed, causing a deluge of ice, mud and rock to bury most of the ...

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 massive glacier in southern Switzerland collapsed on Wednesday, with the debris burying a village and blocking a river, ...

Around 300 people live in Blatten, which is located in southern Switzerland's Loetschental valley. Read more at ...