Swiss municipality raises alert level following glacier break-offs

The situation on the Weisshorn near Randa, canton Valais in southwestern Switzerland, remains tense: following several glacier collapses on Monday, the local authority has raised the alert level to 3. Further collapses in the coming days cannot be ruled out. On Monday afternoon, at least three rockfalls occurred on the Weisshorn East hanging glacier, the municipality of Randa in the Mattertal valley told the Swiss News Agency Keystone-SDA on Tuesday. The largest of these is said to have come…