Mysterious cache of jewels turns up atop French glacier
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.
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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.
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:
