Massive glacier collapse triggers landslide that buries Swiss village

New Scientist ^ | May 28 2025 | Madeleine Cuff

[texas booster]

I couldn't find a news source in Europe that wasn't hopelessly new age/climate hysteria, so I pulled this story.

Glaciers come and go. Who knew?

[texas booster]

The after event of having a glacier melt into your town.

[texas booster]

The glacier obeying gravity.

[Steely Tom]

“Blatten” means “leaf” in German.

[crusty old prospector]

We all could die tomorrow. Or not.

[xp38]

Riding high in April....buried in May

[gildafarrell]

And global warming alarmists are crying and yelling “climate change”, “climate change”, “climate change”, etc.

[Uncle Miltie]

Blatten down the hatches!

[lightman]

Couldn’t find a news site with English options which didn’t demand disabling ad blockers.

[Deaf Smith]

Your link talks big about web cams, drones and videos of the landslide, but gives up one still pic.

[ducttape45]

I was just watching a video about this somewhere today. Youtube maybe?

[texas booster]

I found a couple of YT videos, but choked on the insufferable climate hysteria.

With that in mind, her is one that I like:

"CATASTROPHE of the Century" - WORST CASE HAPPENED - Blatten is Buried - Glacier came down at once !

Just remember to breathe occasionally while watching it.

[AZJeep]

Basically a huge avalanche.
Those had been happening since ever.
In my life, I remember several similar ones in Alps and elsewhere.
In past, they caused severe loss of life.
I am glad, they could predict it now, and evacuated the village!

[doc maverick]

“Blatten down the hatches!”
LOL!
Blatten done been flattened

[VTenigma]

Blatten got flattened. As we say around here “you’ll get that”. Sorry for those that lost property.

[NavyShoe]

More carbon credits would have stopped this.

[JME_FAN]

Looks like Blatten got flattend.

[Deaf Smith]

That link is so much better than the first.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Wow, that narrator is insufferable. I watched the videos with sound turned off.

Impressive landslide!

Reminds me of the "Missoula Floods" that occurred over a 5,000 year period. The floods were triggered by repeated failures of the ice dam on the Clark Fork River with the waters rushing across the landscape at speeds up to 80 mph. These megafloods, possibly numbering 40 to 100 over thousands of years, scoured the Columbia River Basin, carving out the Channeled Scablands, a unique landscape of eroded basalt, coulees, and dry falls. Notable features include the Grand Coulee, Palouse Falls, and the Dry Falls, once the world’s largest waterfall. Each flood carried immense volumes of water—some estimates suggest peak discharges of 400-700 million cubic feet per second—along with sediment, boulders, and ice.

So the Blatten event doesn't look so big now, does it?