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Mont Blanc Glacier Collapse Risk Prompts Evacuations in Italy's Val Ferret

A Swiss alpine village vanished overnight when part of a melting glacier collapsed into the Loetschental valley. Blatten's 300 residents had been evacuated just days before: Saving lives, but not their homes, farms, or generations-old businesses. Now, Switzerland faces a difficult question: is the $1 million per resident rebuild worth it?