The Swiss village wiped off the map by a glacier. Animations on Animations off. By Imogen Foulkes, BBC Geneva Correspondent, and the Visual Journalism team 31 May 2025 Europe.

A catastrophic glacier collapse in the Swiss Alps may have destroyed the small village of Blatten on Wednesday, but the vast majority of its residents have emerged miraculously unharmed ...

New terrifying satellite images have revealed how a tiny Swiss village was completely wiped out by a massive glacier collapse. The remote Alpine village of Blatten was flattened after an avalanche ...

Village of 300 people completely erased in ‘unimaginable’ glacier crash. A disaster of “striking proportions” has destroyed a picturesque village in the Swiss alps in what’s been ...

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In 2023, residents of the village of Brienz, in eastern Switzerland, were evacuated before a huge mass of rock slid down a mountainside, stopping just short of the community.

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One person is missing after a deluge of rock, mud and ice buried 90% of a Swiss mountain village, officials have said. It came after a glacier overlooking the settlement of Blatten, in southern ...

An Oakmont Zoning Hearing Board public hearing was rescheduled after officials discovered no one had notified the central figure in the situation that the hearing was taking place. The hearing, as ...