
The mountain that swallowed a village in Switzerland: ‘There were nine million tons of rocks, too much for the glacier’
A few days before the collapse of the Birch Glacier engulfed much of the village of Blatten (population 300) in the Swiss Alps in a matter of seconds on May 28, the team led by the glaciologist Olivier Gagliardini, a professor at the University of Grenoble …