The search for a 64-year-old man was suspended on Thursday after a huge mass of rock and ice from a glacier crashed down a Swiss mountainside the day before.

Swiss glaciologists attribute the accelerating glacier thaw to climate change, which has increased the risk of such disasters.

Massive glacier collapse buries Swiss village; 90% of Blatten destroyed. Birch Glacier collapse triggered a massive landslide in the Swiss Alps, burying nearly all of Blatten village. Avalanche of ice,