Eight years later, a French mountaineer gets half of a large amount of gems he found on Mont Blanc. The other half goes to the municipality of Chamonix, at the foot of the Alpine giant.
The value of each of the two parts is about 150,000 euros and consists of emeralds, rubies and sapphires. Since 2013, Chamonix has been trying to find the family of the owner of the stones, but without success.
The gems probably belong to one of the victims of a 1966 plane crash. An Air India plane then crashed into the flanks of the mountain. All 117 people on board were killed. In 1950 an Air India plane had also crashed at almost the same spot.
In 2013 a French alpinist found a metal box with an Air India logo on it. It turned out that there were gems in it. The mountaineer decided not to keep the gems, but to take them to the police. The finder wishes to remain anonymous.
Diplomatic post and newspapers
More remains of crashed flights have been found over the years. In 2012, nine kilograms of diplomatic mail was found. Last year there came newspapers in good condition above water. They had been lying for years in the glacial ice that had recently melted. The front pages covered the election of Indira Gandhi, India’s first and only female Prime Minister.
In the past, climbers have also found human remains of victims of the flights, and engines of the aircraft.
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