5 h. ago What is wingsuit flying as Scot tragically dies in Swiss Alps base jump

Liam Byrne, 24, suffered fatal injuries when on the Gitschen mountain on Saturday after taking off from 7,784ft (2,400m).

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9 h. ago Tributes to wingsuit flyer, 24, who died in crash in Swiss Alps

Liam Byrne was killed on the Gitschen mountain in Switzerland on Saturday, the BBC reported.

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11 h. ago Liam Byrne: Scottish man who starred in BBC documentary The Boy Who Can Fly dies during jump in Swiss Alps

A Scottish wingsuit flyer has died during a jump in Switzerland

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11 h. ago British wingsuit champion featured in BBC documentary is killed during a jump in the Swiss Alps

Liam Byrne, 24, was critically injured on the Gitschen mountain in Switzerland on Saturday.

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11 h. ago Scottish wingsuit flyer Liam Byrne dies during base jump in Swiss Alps

The 24-year-old suffered fatal injuries when on the Gitschen mountain.

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2 w. ago ‘The walk is shot through with melancholy and romance’: a new trail to the north face of the Eiger

The hike offers dramatic views of the Swiss Alps’ ‘murder wall’ – and poignant insights into the climbers who first braved it. For the son of one of those pioneers, it had a special resonanceA few years ago, my dad told me of a mountain where I could easily sense another world. “There is a special air and light,” he had said, vaguely. “You just have to walk close to it to feel and see it. Stand in one place and just look up.”The mountain on my dad’s mind that day was the Eiger, Switzerland’s 3,970-metre ogre of limestone and ice. Like few others, the peak exerts a gravitational pull on climbers and it remains the chief symbol of the Bernese Oberland; its most notable feature, the 1,800-metre north face, is the largest in the Alps. This gigantic slab looms over the village of Grindelwald, to the south-east of the town of Interlaken, appearing at sunrise as an immense black spectre in a valley of green. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Flooding fears eased at picturesque Swiss Alpine village buried by landslide

A huge mass of rock, ice and mud from the Birch glacier thundered into the Lötschental valley

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3 w. ago A river dammed by a huge Swiss landslide is flowing again. That's a relief to authorities

Authorities say a small Alpine river dammed by a landslide that largely buried the Swiss village of Blatten is now flowing through the debris, and the level of a newly created lake that raised worries about potential new destruction has fallen

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3 w. ago ‘As we explored, we noticed this huge cow’: Jennifer Newitt’s best phone picture

High above a Swiss mountain village, an American holidaymaker found herself enchanted It was the last day of Jennifer Newitt’s holiday in the Swiss Alps, and she and her husband were hankering after one more excursion before their flight home to the US. High above Wengen, the village they were staying in, they noticed the Grindelwald–Männlichen mountain gondola cableway. Despite pouring rain, sunshine was forecast for later in the day, so they decided to give it a go.“The rain stopped shortly after we arrived at the small cable car station, and we began the 15-minute walk to the summit. Because of the conditions, we had the mountain to ourselves for a while. As we explored, we noticed this huge cow.” Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Swiss president pledges aid for Alpine villagers left homeless after glacier collapse

Switzerland’s president said evacuees from a village whose homes and businesses were destroyed by a dramatic landslide caused by a falling glacier were “not alone” and the wealthy Alpine country was calculating ways to help

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3 w. ago Flooding fears after glacier collapse buries picturesque Swiss village under mud and rock

A deluge of rock and ice careered down the Swiss Alps near a village that authorities had evacuated earlier this month

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3 w. ago Army searches for man after huge chunk of glacier crushes picturesque Swiss Alpine village

Experts were concerned that the debris was blocking a nearby river, causing a new lake to form and posing a flood risk

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3 w. ago Man remains missing after a Swiss glacier collapsed and destroyed 90% of an Alpine village

A 64-year-old man remains missing after a huge mass of rock and ice from a glacier crashed down a Swiss mountainside the day before

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3 w. ago Astonishing new footage shows the moment Swiss village is buried by falling glacier, obliterating houses

Video shows a huge cloud of ice and scree spewing over the Swiss village of Blatten on Wednesday, dwarfing tiny Alpine lodges as a chunk of the Birch glacier broke off

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3 w. ago Glacier collapses and wipes out village burying homes in tonnes of snow and debris

A massive amount of the Birch glacier collapsed on Wednesday in the Swiss Alps, sending snow, ice, mud, and debris crashing down a mountainside and burying part of a village

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3 w. ago One person missing after Glacier collapse buries parts of Swiss village under mud and rock

A deluge of rock and ice careered down the Swiss Alps near a village that authorities had evacuated earlier this month

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3 w. ago One person missing after Swiss glacier collapse destroys village

Homes in Blatten devastated after huge cloud of ice and rubble inundates evacuated townA huge section of a glacier in the Swiss Alps has broken off, causing a deluge of ice, mud and rock to bury most of a village evacuated earlier this month due to the risk of a rockslide.Drone footage broadcast by Swiss national broadcaster SRF showed a vast plain of mud and soil completely covering part of the village of Blatten, the river running through it and the wooded sides of the surrounding valley. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago ‘Catastrophe’: one person missing after Swiss glacier collapse destroys village

Homes in Blatten devastated after huge cloud of ice and rubble inundates evacuated townA huge section of a glacier in the Swiss Alps has broken off, causing a deluge of ice, mud and rock to bury most of a village evacuated earlier this month due to the risk of a rockslide.Drone footage broadcast by Swiss national broadcaster SRF showed a vast plain of mud and soil completely covering part of the village of Blatten, the river running through it and the wooded sides of the surrounding valley. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Swiss village almost entirely destroyed after collapse of glacier buries it in mud

One person missing and Blatten devastated after huge cloud of ice and rubble inundates evacuated townA huge section of a glacier in the Swiss Alps has broken off, causing a deluge of ice, mud and rock to bury most of a village evacuated earlier this month due to the risk of a rockslide.Drone footage broadcast by Swiss national broadcaster SRF showed a vast plain of mud and soil completely covering part of the village of Blatten, the river running through it and the wooded sides of the surrounding valley. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Glacier collapse buries parts of Swiss village under mud and rock

A deluge of rock and ice careered down the Swiss Alps near a village that authorities had evacuated earlier this month

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