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Mysterious cache of jewels turns up atop French glacier
By Michael Pearson and Saskya Vandoorne, CNN
updated 2:34 PM EDT, Thu September 26, 2013
(CNN) -- It reads like the opening scene of an "Indiana Jones" movie.
A young man climbing a French glacier finds a cache of glittering jewels wrapped in bags stamped "Made in India" -- remnants, perhaps, of cargo from an ill-fated airliner called the Malabar Princess.
The best thing about it? This story is true.
It happened early this month on a glacier overlooking the southeastern French village of Chamonix, Albertville police Chief Sylvain Merly said Thursday.
http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/26/world/europe/france-mountain-jewels/index.html?hpt=hp_t3
Democracyinkind
(4,015 posts)The guy actually brought the box to the police. Imagine that... 1/4 to 1/2 million worth of jewels... The guy gave it to the police...
Voice for Peace
(13,141 posts)finding bags of jewels like that, and trying to get rid of
them, could lead a person into scary territories.
Democracyinkind
(4,015 posts)No remorse, there's no real victim... But you have a point... You'd have to get involved with people you'd might want to steer clear of...
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)high-profile plane crashes, he pretty much had to...I'm guessing after the legal hurdles are cleared he will be able to keep them, since the original owner would have long since claimed the insurance...
There's supposedly like $20 million in unclaimed diamonds buried at the site of the Swissair 111 disaster....No one is going to dare try to dig it out, though..
Democracyinkind
(4,015 posts)If you're willing to take the associated risks, as the poster above pointed out.
muriel_volestrangler
(101,352 posts)onethatcares
(16,178 posts)could you point out the fracking wells?
that looks like a great place to live and hike but it's missing an interstate and some smoke stacks.
muriel_volestrangler
(101,352 posts)But a fair bit of the town is modern concrete just like anywhere else. I've been on the Bossons glacier a few times too, but never found any jewels.
Here's the 'interstate', just down the valley:
Leading to the tunnel to Italy, next to the Bossons glacier, at the south-west end of Chamonix: