BLATTEN - Monitoring teams, including researchers linked to ETH Zurich, said on Tuesday that the Birch glacier above the empty village had accelerated sharply, with motion on the order of 10 metres a day. Rock from the Kleines Nesthorn had piled onto the ice for days. The load was the story.
Residents remained in emergency housing down the Loetschental. Photographers were asked to keep their distance. The commune office worked from a temporary desk.
Tomorrow is a geological tense
Nobody in the valley offered a time. They offered a hope that the houses might still be there when the ice stopped. The collapse the next afternoon would cancel that sentence.