The BLATTEN Glacier Collapse: Climate Tragedy in the Swiss ALPS V.28.2025

Even though I’m doing fieldwork in OREGON right now, I feel a strong emotional and personal connection to this event. The small alpine village where I’ve worked for years—the GÔSCHENERALP—is at the same elevation, only 56km as the crow flies east of BLATTEN. #ClimateBREAKDOWN The BLATTEN Glacier Collapse: Climate Tragedy in the Swiss ALPS V.28.2025 mp3 [9Mb] http://www.picture-poems.com/mp3/the-blatten-tragedy_swiss-alps.mp3 Avalanche of 3,000,000 cubic meters rock & ice overwhelms historic high alpine village [in places 200m deep]; debris dams the LONZA RIVER, threatening downstream communities [composed w/ GEMINI] IMAGE: w/ GOOGLE EARTH