The Birch Glacier above the village of Blatten collapsed and caused a landslide that has buried most of the village. Authorities had evacuated residents earlier this month, but one person is missing.

Footage shows landslide erase entire village. A picturesque town has been completely buried by a landslide, with haunting before-and-after footage showing it reduced to rubble.

A collapsing glacier roared down a mountainside in the Swiss Alps on Wednesday. It wiped out one village in its path. The destruction it caused surprised officials who blamed climate change.

"What happened is the unthinkable, the catastrophic worst-case scenario," Christophe Lambiel, a specialist in high-mountain geology and glaciers at the University of Lausanne, told RTS Swiss ...

The Birch Glacier above the village of Blatten collapsed and caused a landslide that has buried most of the village. Authorities had evacuated residents earlier this month, but one person is missing.

Christophe Lambiel, a glaciologist who also specializes in high-mountain geology at the University of Lausanne in Switzerland, said on RTS Swiss Television that the rockfalls were linked to ...

Photos from different angles show the broader landscape. Satellite image ©2025 Maxar Technologies What People Are Saying. Christophe Lambiel, a specialist in high-mountain geology and glaciers at ...