Swiss village of 1,300 faces threat from unstable Alpine rock formation

The Swiss village of Kandersteg could be destroyed by a landslide due to an unstable mountain rock formation, and scientists are linking the threat to thawing permafrost and glacier dynamics. The 1,300 residents of the village in Switzerland's Bern canton live in the midst of a charming landscape including sharp peaks, white glaciers, steep green valleys and it is this natural surrounding that could take it over, as per a report by CNN.A mountainside rock formation called Spitze Stei, part of a mountain landscape increasingly affected by thawing permafrost, threatens to collapse the valley in a massive landslide. There has been a heightened threat of rockslides in Kandersteg since 2018, when paragliders noted that the rock formation was losing height and that pieces had broken off it, according to a Reuters report.