"We have lost our village, but we have not lost our heart." Devastating scene unfolds as glacier collapse buries small Swiss village in mud and rock: 'The unimaginable has happened' first appeared on The Cool Down.

The Birch Glacier above the village of Blatten collapsed and caused a landslide that has buried most of the village. Authorities had evacuated residents earlier this month, but one person is missing.

A huge chunk of a glacier in the Swiss Alps broke off on Wednesday afternoon, causing a deluge of ice, mud and rock to bury part of a mountain village evacuated earlier this month due to the risk of a rockslide,