Tinted detail of a photo: Broad grey gravel outwash plain crossed by shallow braided channels of muddy water, with two glacier tongues flowing between dark mountains under a cloudy sky.
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Highlighting: The Blatten landslide in Switzerland

Highlighting: The Blatten landslide in Switzerland

In the morning of May 28, 2025, the picturesque Swiss alpine village of Blatten sat quiet and serene in the Lötschen Valley. Exceptionally quiet, in fact, as the village was evacuated on May 19th after a local Natural Hazards expert spotted a worrisome change in a local mountain looming about the village, the Kleines Nesthorn: …[Read More]