By Marleen Kaesebier, Denis Balibouse and Cecile Mantovani WILER, Switzerland, May 26 (Reuters) - Hotel Momentum stands above Switzerland's Loetschen Valley as a symbol of recovery, a year after a ...

A massive landslide destroyed 90% of Blatten, Switzerland, a town nestled in a valley below a steep mountainside. "We've lost our village," Blatten Mayor Matthias Bellwald said in the wake of the ...

(MENAFN- Swissinfo) Two weeks after a massive landslide wiped out most of the mountain village of Blatten in the Swiss Alps, talk of reconstruction is picking up, but huge challenges remain. A ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A small village is "under rubble" after a glacier partially collapsed in the Swiss Alps this week, causing a mudslide. An official ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This afternoon, a massive avalanche of ice, mud, and rock buried the picturesque Swiss village of Blatten. It was triggered when a ...

BLATTEN, Switzerland — When a devastating landslide all but swallowed his Swiss village and toppled his three-generation family-owned hotel in May, Lukas Kalbermatten was overwhelmed by a sense of ...

On Wednesday, May 28, 2025, a large portion of the Birch Glacier in Switzerland partially collapsed and released a chunk of ice that set off an enormous landslide, largely burying the village of ...

The Swiss village of Blatten has been partially destroyed, leaving several homes fully flattened after a huge section of a glacier fell down onto the valley floor. Thankfully, the village had been ...

A massive chunk of rock and ice from a glacier cascaded down a Swiss mountainside on Wednesday, sending clouds of dust into the air and covering almost the entire Alpine village, which officials had ...

WILER, Switzerland, May 26 - Hotel Momentum stands above Switzerland's Loetschen Valley as a symbol of recovery, a year after a collapsing glacier destroyed the village of Blatten. Built in just 105 ...