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The village of Blatten's mayor, Matthias Bellwald, said 'the unimaginable' had happened before promising that the village ...
A massive glacier collapse in the Swiss Alps largely destroyed the village of Blatten, with one person missing, authorities said.
The Swiss village of Blatten has been partially destroyed after a huge chunk of glacier crashed down into the valley.
The Birch glacier in Switzerland's southern Wallis region collapsed, sending tons of rock, ice, and scree hurtling down the ...
A massive glacier collapse in the Swiss Alps on Wednesday largely destroyed the village of Blatten ... had formed in the valley floor, where the Lonza river flows, with a small lake growing ...
mud and rocks that caused widespread damage to a small village, nine days after its 300 residents had been ordered to evacuate. At least one person is missing after the village, Blatten ...
A deluge of millions of cubic meters of ice, mud and rock crashed down a mountain engulfing the village of Blatten and the few houses that remained were later flooded ...
No one lived in it anymore except for a small ... valley to join the team on a ridge overlooking the Great Temple. “We’re shooting stripes,” Jaskolski called out as the bug­like drone ...
Rescue teams and search dogs continued to scour the area on Thursday for a missing 64-year-old man after an initial drone scan found ... a church in the neighbouring village of Wiler. A nearby road, ...