2025 Blatten landslide

Several houses on the left, before the bridge were unaffected by the landslide. As the landslide also blocked the river, they then sank into the lake that the river was building

The Blatten landslide, sometimes called a rock-fall or ice-avalanche,https://www.unesco-floods.eu/landslide-catastrophe-in-blatten-central-switzerland/. " The ice avalanche run-out area is close to 2 km2 – covered by ice and debris deposits several meters high". Retrieved 2025-05-29 or glacier collapse, is a natural disaster that occurred on May 28, 2025. The landslide destroyed most of the village of Blatten in the Lötschental in the canton of Valais in Switzerland. The landslide was an avalanche, made of debris and ice. A glacier in the area of the Bietschhorn had collapsed and  caused the landslide. Monitoring equipment was in place, which allowed to evacuate the village on May 19, about 10 days before the event. A shepherd was first reported missing, but he likely died.

 Related pages 
Rock-fall

 References

 Theodor Hügi, Hugo Ledermann, Ernst Schläppi: Sheet 1268 Lötschental (Atlas Sheet 82) – Explanations. In: Swiss Geological Commission, National Hydrology and Geology (ed.) : Geological Atlas of Switzerland 1:25 000, 1988 ( online ).

 Other websites 

 Landslide in the Lötschental: Blatten VS before and after the landslide – the pictures . In: srf.ch .

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