WILER, Switzerland ¨C Hotel Momentum stands above Switzerland¡¯s Loetschen Valley as a symbol of recovery, a year after a collapsing glacier destroyed the village of Blatten.
Built in just 105 days near the neighboring town of Wiler, the wooden hotel is one of the clearest signs of how displaced residents are rebuilding their lives after the disaster.
¡°The past is no longer, the future is not here yet, life is here and now,¡± a wooden sign reads in German at the reception ¡ª a message that has come to define ?the outlook of many who lost their homes.
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