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

Canton Valais is releasing CHF10 million ($12.1 million) in emergency funds for the Swiss mountain village of Blatten, which ...

The fact that only one person is missing after the huge glacier collapse that engulfed the Swiss mountain village of Blatten ...

The “Blatten of the future” should also benefit ... According to Finance Director Franziska Biner, canton Valais is on a sound financial footing. Among other things, she mentioned the fiscal ...

Please stop sending clothes, but give us money. That’s the message from the authorities in the devasted village of Blatten.

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

Switzerland’s glacier collapse is a chilling sign of Europe’s warming crisis – and a warning for alpine communities.

The situation in the landslide area of Blatten in the Valais Lötschental remained stable on Monday. The Lonza is still flowing in a controlled manner and the level of the lake is constant, said ...

Emergency teams around Blatten are itching to start the clean-up operation after last week’s devastating rockfall – but ...

By comparison, around nine million cubic meters fell in Blatten. "We were very affected," Kandersteg's mayor René Maeder told ...

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