• A mountaineer stumbled upon a treasure trove of jewels on a glacier off France’s Mont Blanc in 2013.
• The valuable gems are believed to have belonged to a passenger who died in a airplane crash.
• Native authorities have agreed, after eight years, to share the jewels with the person who discovered them.

A mountain climber who found a steel field full of valuable gems, buried for many years on a glacier off France’s Mont Blanc, has been rewarded a share of the treasure eight years after he discovered it, France 24 reported.

The mountaineer found the gathering of emeralds, rubies, and sapphires in 2013 after seeing one thing poking out of the snow and ice close to the French-Swiss border, The Guardian reported.

He discovered a field with “Made in India” inscribed on it that contained about 100 stones, the media outlet stated. It is believed to have belonged to a passenger killed in one among two Air India flights that crashed in 1950 and 1966 close to Mont Blanc, The Guardian reported in 2013.

The person carried the treasure to a neighborhood police station, stories stated, however needed to wait years to seek out out if he can be rewarded for his honesty.

On Saturday, Eric Fournier, Chamonix’s mayor, instructed the Agence France-Presse that the mountaineer had proven “integrity,” and he introduced that “the stones have been shared this week.”

The treasure has been cut up into two equal heaps, France 24 reported. Each the person and native authorities are set to obtain a set of gems to the worth of 150,000 euros ($169,000), the media outlet stated.

Fournier instructed AFP that he was “very comfortable” {that a} choice had been reached.

In 2017, a person discovered human stays in Chamonix believed to have been from passengers on one of many Air India flights.