Sheets VS: the Three-Stage System of Mountain Monitoring

When the mountain comes, the inhabitants of Blatten are saved. As one could predict, researcher Yves Bühler knows.

The village of Blatten in Lötschental, Switzerland, has been evacuated due to the imminent risk of landslides. About 300 residents and 52 cows were evacuated on Tuesday, either on foot, by car or by helicopter. Geologists believe that a large landslide could occur in the valley in the coming days. Blatten is the highest village in the Lötschental (at 1,540 meters above sea level) in the canton of Valais in Switzerland.

A cow is transported by helicopter from the landslide area near the Bietschhorn, in the Loetschental Valley, to a farm in Ferden, Switzerland.The village of Blatten VS, in the Loetschental Valley, had to be evacuated completely due to the danger of rock landslides. About 300 people were affected. I EFE The entry Swiss village of Blatten is evacuated was first published in Digital Process.

An impending landslide on the Kleiner Nesthorn mountain threatens the Valais village of Blatten: 300 people have been forced to evacuate their homes. A visual overview.

Matthias Bellwald returns to Blatten only as a pensioner. Only five months ago has the former professional officer been mayor of the municipality - and already faced with his first crisis.