Caption
On 28 May 2025, a large section of the Birch Glacier collapsed under the additional load of around nine million tonnes of rockfall material from the Kleine Nesthorn. The resulting avalanche of ice and debris buried around 90 per cent of the village of Blatten. Lötschental, Valais, Switzerland
Date
May 16, 2009
Credit line
Photo12/imageBROKER/Peter Seyfferth
Reference
BRK25G71_133
Model release
NA
Property release
No
License type
Royalty free
Available size
15,1Mb (1,4Mb) / 9,4in x 6,3in / 2816 x 1880 (300dpi)