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 ...

GENEVA — A small Alpine river dammed by a landslide that largely buried the Swiss village of Blatten is now flowing through the debris, and the level of a newly created lake that raised worries about ...

A glacier collapse has wiped out the village of Blatten in Valais. While politicians are determined to rebuild, experts warn of challenges ahead. The old Blatten will probably never exist again. A ...

(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 ...

The Swiss village of Blatten has been partially destroyed after a huge chunk of glacier crashed down into the valley. Although the village had been evacuated some days ago because of fears the Birch ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A drone view shows the village of Wiler, overlooking the landslide area nearly a year after a massive rock and ice slide triggered ...

In mid-May, at about ten thousand feet above sea level, a rocky mountainside in the Swiss Alps gave way and tumbled onto a field of ice called the Birch Glacier. Half a mile below, in the Lötschen ...

The village of Blatten has stood for centuries, then in seconds it was gone. Scientists monitoring the Nesthorn mountain above the village in recent weeks saw that parts of it had begun to crumble, ...

After the devastating landslide, the almost completely destroyed village of Blatten is to be rebuilt by 2029. "We want to rebuild in a safe place," said State Councillor Franz Ruppen (SVP), among ...

An unstable mountain rock formation looming above the Swiss village of Kandersteg threatens a landslide that could rival the disaster that destroyed nearby Blatten last year, a collapse scientists ...