Gemstones worth €300,000 shared between Mont Blanc climber and authorities as man praised for handing discovery to police in 2013
A treasure trove of emeralds, rubies and sapphires buried for decades on a glacier off France’s Mont Blanc has finally been shared between the climber who discovered them and local authorities, eight years after they were found.
The mountaineer stumbled across the precious stones in 2013. They had remained hidden in a metal box that was onboard an Indian plane that crashed in the desolate landscape some 50 years earlier.
Continue reading...source https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/dec/06/mountaineer-given-jewels-he-found-on-french-glacier-50-years-after-plane-crash
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