guides of the expedition of Dr Joseph Hamel, a Russian naturalist. The guides were lost after they were swept into a crevasse following the party's 1,200-foot fall in an avalanche. In August 1861 two of the bodies were discovered at the terminus of the glacier. Two of the surviving guides from the expedition were still alive, and one, 72 year-old Joseph-Marie Couttet, positively identified the remains. See also List of glaciers References External links Bossons Glacier on French IGN mapping portal Satellite view of Bossons glacier on Bing maps Glaciers of Metropolitan France Landforms of Haute-Savoie Glaciers of the Alps Landforms of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes