Man missing after glacier in Switzerland collapses and destroys village

A large avalanche with a mixture of ice, rock, snow and water in Wiler after the Birch glacier collapsed above Blatten in Switzerland (Jean-Christophe Bott/Keystone via AP)

A 64-year-old man is missing after a huge mass of rock and ice from a glacier crashed down a Swiss mountainside.

The landslide sent plumes of dust into the sky and coated with mud nearly all of an Alpine village that authorities had evacuated earlier this month as a precaution.