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*Swiss Town Buried by Massive Glacier Break*
Schweizer Fernsehen reports (auto-translated): In Blatten in the Lötschental VS there has been a major glacier break. The major event feared by the experts arrived: A gigantic avalanche of ice, mud and scree has buried a large part of the village below it. Numerous houses were destroyed. People were not harmed – but one person […] …
https://electriccablecar.com/swiss-town-buried-by-massive-glacier-break/
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May 28, 1983, 42 years ago today: Eventually I made it to the top of a knob with no views and began a descent alongside a barbed-wire fence into a sag.
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May 28, 1983, 42 years ago today: I followed the jeep road through an overgrown field where two gravestones were covered with fresh flowers. They marked the graves of a couple of local men who fought for the Union side in the Civil War and were killed in an ambush by Confederate loyalists while attempting to go home on leave.
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"Update (May 28) — The glacier collapsed during the afternoon hours of May 28, burying the village of Blatten. One person has been reported missing, and many houses were completely flattened. According to the authorities, around 3 million m3 (106 million ft3) of rock, ice and debris fell from the mountain onto the village during the glacier collapse. "
The Swiss village is Blatten. The mountain is the Klein Nesthorn.
https://watchers.news/2025/05/28/rapid-glacier-movement-landslides-birch-glacier-blatten-monitoring/
https://universeodon.com/@bergmeister@mountains.social/114586315137016675
https://bsky.app/profile/subfossilguy.bsky.social/post/3lqajosvxps2d
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