Geneva | A vast section of a glacier broke apart in the Swiss Alps on Wednesday (Thursday AEST), setting off a landslide of ice, mud and rocks that swept through nearly all of a village, whose 300 residents had been ordered to evacuate nine days earlier.
Drone footage and other videos captured the moment the glacier collapsed, sending a large plume of dust down a mountainside and into the southern Lotschental valley. The glacier, covered by about 9 million tonnes of debris, was estimated by a government engineer to have been moving about 8 to 11 feet a day toward the valley before the landslide.
