French climber handed Mont Blanc gems after 2013 find

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A climber who stumbled upon a treasure trove of emeralds, rubies and sapphires that had been buried for decades on France’s Mount Blanc has now been given half of the gems he found in a box.

The climber, who has not been named, discovered the precious gems in 2013.

It is believed that the box belonged to someone on board an Indian plane that crashed half a century earlier.

The mountaineer was praised after handing the box over to police, as is required by French law.

But now he has been rewarded with half of the trove of hundreds of precious stones, with the local authority in Chamonix taking the other half, after an unsuccessful attempt to locate the family of the owner in India.

The gems have now been shared into two equal lots valued at around €150,000 (£128,000) each, Chamonix mayor Eric Fournier told the AFP news agency.

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