The 2025 Blatten Landslide: The Temptations of Ignorance and of a Cost-Benefit Liberal Mindset Versus Scientific Expertise and Transition Pathways
On 28 May 2025, a huge landslide buried Blatten, the highest village in the Lötschental valley in the Swiss canton of Valais. For weeks, whole sections of the 3,341-metre-high Kleines Nesthorn had been falling onto the Birch Glacier, accelerating its movement and ultimately causing it to collapse,...
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Journal of Alpine research|Revue de géographie alpine
2025
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| Linkit: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Yhteenveto: | On 28 May 2025, a huge landslide buried Blatten, the highest village in the Lötschental valley in the Swiss canton of Valais. For weeks, whole sections of the 3,341-metre-high Kleines Nesthorn had been falling onto the Birch Glacier, accelerating its movement and ultimately causing it to collapse, hurling ice and rocks into the valley. The risk of this event happening had been identified by several scientific studies, which primarily attributed it to global warming: this is another place whe... |
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