Like the people of the Swiss Alps, the Langtangpa have been living with avalanches for centuries, and they have used both ...

Welcome to our selection of some of the biggest – and most colourful – stories in Switzerland over the past seven days.

The residents of two hamlets in Blatten, Switzerland, were able to visit their homes following a landslide that devasted the ...

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

A small Alpine river dammed by a landslide that largely buried the Swiss village of Blatten is now flowing through the debris ...

A massive glacier collapse hit Blatten in the Swiss Alps on May 28, 2025. Evacuations saved lives, but one person is missing.

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The dramatic collapse of Switzerland's Birch glacier, which wiped out a village, is an unprecedented disaster likely to cost ...

The collapse of the glacier in the Swiss Alps was an expected disaster. When the first signs of instability started to appear ...

The dramatic collapse of Switzerland's Birch glacier wiped the village of Blatten off the map. DW spoke to locals and experts about what happened and what comes next ...

Authorities and scientists had been monitoring the area closely and when the first signs of instability started to appear, over a week before the event, they evacuated the town of Blatten ...

A river in the Swiss Alps, which was dammed by a landslide that buried much of the village of Blatten, is now flowing through the debris, authorities have said. A huge mass of rock, ice and mud ...