On May 28, a mass of rock, ice, mud and water crashed down on and buried the mountain village of Blatten in the Swiss canton ...

Days after a gigantic avalanche of ice, mud and debris buried much of the village of Blatten in canton Valais, the danger is ...

Swiss authorities have expanded the evacuation of an Alpine village threatened by a possible landslide, ordering most of its ...

Swiss glacier collapses, leaves nearly all of Alpine village destroyed. Clips and photos of the Swiss glacier collapse that ...

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Swiss authorities added livestock to the list of evacuees along with about 300 people moved out of a village threatened by a ...

A huge mass of rock and ice from a glacier thundered down a Swiss Alpine mountainside, sending plumes of dust skyward and ...

Explore Bettmeralp, a secret alpine village nestled high above the Rhone Valley and famed for its postcard-perfect winter scenery. Surrounded by the awe-inspiring peaks of the Valais—Weisshorn ...

the largest valley on the northern side of the Rhône valley in the canton of Valais in Switzerland. According to the local police, a 64-year-old man was reported missing following the disaster ...

in the Lötschental — a valley above the larger Rhone valley in the southern Valais canton (state). On Monday, authorities in Valais announced the complete evacuation of the village of some 300 ...