Tourism companies in the Lötschental in Canton Valais are getting creative as visitor numbers have plummeted following the recent landslide over the town of Blatten.

A new 3D simulation tool developed by ETH and SLF researchers now allows for significantly more accurate predictions of complex alpine mass movements, supporting alpine risk management.

Two weeks after a massive landslide wiped out most of the mountain village of Blatten in the Swiss Alps, talk of reconstruction is picking up, but hu ...

The village, situated in the Lötschental Valley of southern Switzerland, now lies almost entirely beneath a thick, sludgy mass that tore down the mountainside with unstoppable momentum.

In the Swiss Alpine imagination, already rich with legends, this Lötschental valley, in the southern canton of Valais, occupies a special place − a sort of original, Edenic sanctuary.

According to the authorities in canton Valais, the danger in the landslide area in the Lötschental valley remains very high on Sunday.

Flooding fears eased at picturesque Swiss Alpine village buried by landslide A huge mass of rock, ice and mud from the Birch glacier thundered into the Lötschental valley ...

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. All 300 residents ...

Following the dramatic rock fall and glacier collapse on Wednesday in the Swiss Lötschental valley, officials said on Saturday that the situation had eased.

The landslide that buried most of a Swiss village this week is focusing renewed attention on the role of global warming in glacier collapses around the world and the increasing dangers.

Following the dramatic rock fall and glacier collapse on Wednesday in the Swiss Lötschental valley, officials said on Saturday that the situation had eased. One fear had been that the Lonza River, ...