Alexandre Agrusti / AFP / GettyThis photograph shows the remaining buildings of the village of Blatten, in the Swiss Alps, buried by a landslide, on May 29, 2025. Blatten residents were evacuated last week after several smaller landslides, but one person remains missing. Rising floodwater from the blocked Lonza river is now inundating the few surviving buildings and threatening downstream villages.Gunter Fischer / Universal Images Group / GettyThis archive photo from 2020 shows the village of Blatten as it appeared before the landslide, in the Canton of Valais, Switzerland.Pomona Media / ReutersMud and rocks slide down a mountain after a glacier partially collapsed, burying most of the village of Blatten, on May 28, 2025, in this screen grab taken from a handout video.Jean-Christophe Bott / Keystone / APAn aerial view shows the destruction of Blatten, Switzerland, on May 29, 2025, one day after the landslide.Stefan Wermuth / ReutersDebris from a crumbling glacier that partially collapsed and tumbled onto the village of Blatten, seen on May 29, 2025.Fabrice Coffrini / AFP / GettyThis photograph taken from the nearby village of Ferden shows part of the landslide on May 29, 2025.Fabrice Coffrini / AFP / GettyA helicopter flies above the landslide area in the Lötschental Valley on May 29, 2025.Stefan Wermuth / ReutersA helicopter drops equipment in Ried, next to debris from the landslide, on May 29, 2025.Fabrice Coffrini / AFP / GettyA view of the landslide, seen from the nearby village of Ferden on May 29, 2025.Stefan Wermuth / ReutersDust swirls above part of a collapsed glacier on the mountainside above the village of Blatten on May 29, 2025.Fabrice Coffrini / AFP / GettyFloodwater rises in what remains of the village of Blatten, after the landslide blocked the river Lonza, seen on May 29, 2025.Stefan Wermuth / ReutersA car is carried by a helicopter out of Blatten on May 29, 2025.Stefan Wermuth / ReutersSeveral sheep are airlifted out of Blatten on May 29, 2025.Fabrice Coffrini / AFP / GettyThis photograph taken above Wiler shows the Bietschhorn mountain in the Swiss Alps after part of the huge Birch Glacier had collapsed the day before and destroyed the small village of Blatten, on May 29, 2025.Alexandre Agrusti / AFP / GettyThe remaining buildings of the village of Blatten, after surviving the landslide, are being slowly swallowed by rising floodwater from the river Lonza, which was blocked by the debris.
