A year after glacier collapse, Blatten residents rebuild lives in Swiss Alps

By Marleen Kaesebier, Denis Balibouse and Cecile Mantovani WILER, Switzerland, May 26 (Reuters) - Hotel Momentum stands above ...

The Swiss Alps Reckon With the Threat of Collapsing Glaciers

We don’t live in an easy landscape.” As climate change leads to collapsing glaciers and mudslides, some in Switzerland ...

Villagers rebuild lives in Swiss Alps after homes wiped out by glacier collapse

A new hotel, Hotel Momentum, now stands in Switzerland's Loetschen Valley, a year after a devastating glacier collapse wiped out the village of Blatten. Built rapidly in just 105 days near the ...
USA Today

A collapsing glacier destroyed a Swiss village. Is climate change to blame?

A small village in the Swiss Alps has been engulfed by ice, mud, and rock in a rare natural disaster that points to an uncertain future as unstable mountainous glaciers can break apart in destructive ...
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Blatten landslide caused damage totalling CHF255 million

A year ago a collapsing glacier buried and destroyed large parts of the village of Blatten in the Lötschental valley in ...