In the past century, scientists have observed more rockfalls and avalanches in the Alps, a looming threat to nearby villages.

KANDERSTEG, Switzerland (Reuters) -In the Swiss Alpine resort of Kandersteg, officials have been closely monitoring a ...

Villagers nervously watch a mountain peak after rockslide buried their neighbours - Blatten was evacuated before a chunk of a glacier broke off ...

The body of a 64-year-old man, who has been missing since part of the Brich glacier collapsed on the Swiss village of Blatten ...

One of Switzerland's glaciologists says his teams are noticing a strange phenomenon in the Alpine country's glaciers: Holes ...

Human remains were found and recovered on Tuesday as part of a search operation in the buried Valais mountain village of ...

On 24 June 2025, human remains were recovered in Blatten, the Valais mountain village largely destroyed by a catastrophic ...

Human remains were found near the Swiss village of Blatten, which was wiped out by a glacier collapse last month, local ...

Swiss authorities have cleared a village in the country’s east over a potential rockslide, three weeks after a mudslide submerged a vacated village in the southwest.

Search parties combing the Swiss Alpine village that was buried last month after the collapse of a glacier have found human ...

Blatten was evacuated 10 days before the deluge, which caused insurance losses of 320 million Swiss francs ($400 million), an initial estimate by the Swiss insurance association showed.

Police teams working at the devastated remains of the village of Blatten in canton Valais have found human remains.