A 64-year-old man went missing when the majority of a Swiss village was swallowed after a glacier collapsed on Wednesday, May 28, authorities said Blatten has been buried and "the damage is ...

This afternoon, a massive avalanche of ice, mud, and rock buried the picturesque Swiss village of Blatten. It was triggered when a huge chunk of ice broke off from the Birch Glacier, which lies ...

BLATTEN, Switzerland — Last week, Birch Glacier above the Swiss village of Blatten broke off, causing a landslide that destroyed the village. A video from Reuters showed the massive amounts of rock, ...

A chunk of the Birch glacier collapsed Wednesday, May 28, 2025, burying large portions of the small Swiss village, Blatten, under a mass of snow, ice, and debris, according to news reports. On May 19, ...

A catastrophic glacier collapse tore through the Swiss Alpine village of Blatten on Wednesday, May 28, in a chilling reminder of the growing power of nature and the mounting costs of a warming planet.

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 ...

On the afternoon of 28 May, a massive glacier avalanche destroyed the idyllic village of Blatten in the Valais region of Switzerland. Footage of the disaster rapidly circulated around the world, ...

A massive landslide triggered by the collapse of part of the Birch Glacier buried nearly 90 percent of the Catholic village of Blatten in Switzerland's Lötschental Valley on May 28. All 300 residents ...