His second stroke of luck came when a sled dog tourism company that operates on the glacier overheard the 911 dispatch and offered up its helicopter to ferry rescuers to the scene, which was ...

Debris covers land near Wiler, Switzerland, yesterday, a day after the Birch Glacier collapsed and a landslide partially destroyed the small village of Blatten. The army was deployed and rescue ...

The landslide that buried most of a Swiss village this week is focusing renewed attention on the role of global warming in glacier collapses around the world and the increasing dangers.