Glacier Crash in Sheets: Is It Useful to Rebuild?

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Blatten lies under rubble and ice. Experts and politicians advise on reconstruction, relocation or task.

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The Swiss Alpine village of Blatten is buried under 9 million cubic metres of mud and ice after the neighbouring glacier almost completely broke away. Some 300 residents were evacuated in time, one is still missing, but the village is gone. “We had to leave all our family memories behind.”

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This dossier returns to the collapse of the Birch glacier on 28 May 2025 on the village of Blatten, with videos, reports, analyses and testimonies