The dramatic collapse of Switzerland's Birch glacier wiped the village of Blatten off the map. DW spoke to locals and experts ...

Video on social media and Swiss TV showed the mudslide near Blatten, in the southern Lötschental valley, with homes and buildings partially submerged under ...

A landslide near Blatten, Switzerland submerged an entire village in the Swiss Alps, leaving most of the homes and buildings under a mass of brown sludge.

A 64-year-old man remains missing after a huge mass of rock and ice from a glacier crashed down a Swiss mountainside the day before.

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 ...

On Wednesday, a landslide from the mountain side of Birch Glacier -- located in the Lötschental valley in northern ...

Water trapped behind glacial debris that buried the village of Blatten and blocked a river has sparked warnings of further ...

Video on social media and Swiss television showed that the mudslide near Blatten, in the southern Lötschental valley ... retreat of glaciers in Switzerland. The landlocked Alpine country has ...

Video on social media and Swiss TV showed the mudslide near Blatten, in the southern Lötschental valley ... the retreat of glaciers in Switzerland. The landlocked Alpine country has the most ...

The landlocked Alpine country has the most glaciers of any country in Europe ... snow and water reach the valley floor is pictured in Wiler after the Birch glacier collapsing above Blatten ...