A Swiss Village Destroyed by a Landslide

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An aerial view of an Alpine valley after a massive landslide, with a cluster of houses being flooded on the uphill side.
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This photograph shows the remaining buildings of the village of Blatten, in the Swiss Alps, buried by a landslide, on May 29, 2025. Blatten residents were evacuated last week after several smaller landslides, but one person remains missing. Rising floodwater from the blocked Lonza river is now inundating the few surviving buildings and threatening downstream villages.
An aerial view of a small Alpine village.
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This archive photo from 2020 shows the village of Blatten as it appeared before the landslide, in the Canton of Valais, Switzerland.
A screenshot from a video of a landslide explosively crashing down a mountainside.
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Mud and rocks slide down a mountain after a glacier partially collapsed, burying most of the village of Blatten, on May 28, 2025, in this screen grab taken from a handout video.
An aerial view of the side of a mountain valley, scarred by a recent landslide, covering much of a village below.
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An aerial view shows the destruction of Blatten, Switzerland, on May 29, 2025, one day after the landslide.
The path of a landslide, filled with rocky debris
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Debris from a crumbling glacier that partially collapsed and tumbled onto the village of Blatten, seen on May 29, 2025.
A field of landslide debris fills a valley uphill from a village.
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This photograph taken from the nearby village of Ferden shows part of the landslide on May 29, 2025.
A helicopter flies above a recent landslide.
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A helicopter flies above the landslide area in the Lötschental Valley on May 29, 2025.
A helicopter lowers equipment to a village near a landslide.
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A helicopter drops equipment in Ried, next to debris from the landslide, on May 29, 2025.
A broad view of a narrow mountain valley with a landslide at center, and some village buildings in the foreground
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A view of the landslide, seen from the nearby village of Ferden on May 29, 2025.
Dust swirls above a mountainside glacier.
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Dust swirls above part of a collapsed glacier on the mountainside above the village of Blatten on May 29, 2025.
A cluster of houses sit in floodwater beside landslide debris.
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Floodwater rises in what remains of the village of Blatten, after the landslide blocked the river Lonza, seen on May 29, 2025.
A car hangs from a sling beneath a helicopter (unseen), in front of a large snow-covered mountain.
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A car is carried by a helicopter out of Blatten on May 29, 2025.
A container carrying several sheep hangs from a cable beneath a helicopter (unseen), flown above a pine forest.
Stefan Wermuth / Reuters
Several sheep are airlifted out of Blatten on May 29, 2025.
A view of the side of a broad Alpine valley, scarred by a recent landslide
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This photograph taken above Wiler shows the Bietschhorn mountain in the Swiss Alps after part of the huge Birch Glacier had collapsed the day before and destroyed the small village of Blatten, on May 29, 2025.
Part of a landslide-damaged mountain village, being slowly flooded by rising water.
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The remaining buildings of the village of Blatten, after surviving the landslide, are being slowly swallowed by rising floodwater from the river Lonza, which was blocked by the debris.

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