Alpine villages are facing a growing threat from mud, debris, and landslides as glaciers melt and storms intensify. This DW documentary opens with the near-total burial of the Swiss village of Blatten in May 2025, then travels to communities already living with the aftermath of similar disasters. In Cogne, northern Italy, hotel manager Nathalie Fattore describes the mudslide that buried her hotel's terrace and cut the village off from the outside world for four weeks in 2024, while engineer Giuseppe Cutano, a civil defense volunteer, builds protective barriers and plans for the village's future. In Bavaria's Garmisch-Partenkirchen region, mountain expert Horst Hofmann installs monitoring systems and oversees construction of a 'wildwood grate,' a new kind of debris barrier, after a 2018 flood swept mud and fallen trees through town. Interviews with residents and engineers weigh how much concrete, steel, and monitoring technology can realistically hold back a mountain that is coming apart, and how much has to be accepted as unavoidable risk.