The search for a 64-year-old man was suspended on Thursday after a huge mass of rock and ice from a glacier crashed down a Swiss mountainside the day before.

A huge chunk of a glacier in the Swiss Alps broke off on Wednesday afternoon, causing a deluge of ice, mud and rock to bury part of a mountain village evacuated earlier this month due to the risk of a ...

According to an initial estimate, the landslide in Blatten in Valais will cost insurers around 320 million Swiss francs. The ...

Two weeks after a massive landslide wiped out most of the mountain village of Blatten in the Swiss Alps, talk of ...

The Valais mountain village of Blatten, which was largely buried by a landslide, is to receive emergency aid totalling CHF5 ...

Blatten is located in the Loetschental valley in the canton of Valais. "We've lost our village," Blatten Mayor Matthias Bellwald said at a news conference, per Reuters. "The village is under rubble.

Swiss debates on preserving Alpine life intensify amid climate threats. Discover the discussion shaping mountain village ...

Canton Valais is releasing CHF10 million ($12.1 million) in emergency funds for the Swiss mountain village of Blatten, which was wiped out by a devas ...

so it’s a major catastrophe that has happened here in Blatten,” Stephane Ganzer, the head of security in Switzerland’s southern Valais region, told local TV channel Canal9. Blatten ...

On the afternoon of Wednesday, May 28, almost "the entire Birch Glacier, located above Blatten, collapsed, causing a gigantic landslide," the Valais government said in a Thursday, May 29 ...

The Valais mountain village of Blatten, which was largely buried by a landslide, will receive five million francs in ...

Still, the regional government in Valais canton (state) said that the Lonza has been ... but it too early to be able to give an all-clear,” said Matthias Bellwald, Blatten's mayor. Advertisement ...