While the Chilkat Valley is not unique in facing landslides, the combination of steep slopes, heavy rainfall, aging ...

These majestic landscapes have always been dangerous, but as the world warms, mountains are becoming much more unpredictable ...

Birch Glacier above the Swiss village of Blatten broke off, causing a landslide that destroyed the village. A herd of cows got evacuated via helicopter for a ride of a lifetime to get to safety.

Authorities say they're relieved after a small Alpine river dammed by a landslide that largely buried the Swiss village of ...

Massive glacier collapse in Blatten, Switzerland, causes debris blockage and raises serious flood risks in the Lonza valley.

GENEVA (AP) — A small Alpine river dammed by a landslide that largely buried ... thundered into the Lötschental valley in southern Switzerland on Wednesday, destroying much of the village.

A massive landslide triggered by the collapse of part of the Birch Glacier buried nearly 90 percent of the Catholic village of Blatten in Switzerland's Lötschental Valley on May 28 ... "This region is ...

On May 28, a mass of rock, ice, mud and water crashed down on and buried the mountain village of Blatten in the Swiss canton of Valais. Only a few houses remained standing, and these are now flooded ...

"This region is used to risks that come simply from the fact that what surrounds those villages are really high mountains," ...

A massive landslide hit a village in the southern Switzerland. The incident occurred after the Birch glacier collapsed. A man is missing after the disaster. The landslide largely destroyed Blatten ...

A massive landslide hit a village in the southern Switzerland. The incident occurred ... "There is a serious risk of an ice jam that could flood the valley below," Antoine Jacquod, a military ...