The inexorable downward movement and melting of glaciers can result in objects lost within them reappearing many years later . The first recorded account of a body reappearing from a glacier in the Mont Blanc range was made by Viscount Edmond de Catelin in 1861 . It concerned three alpine guides who were buried in a crevasse during an avalanche on 20 August 1820 near the Rocher Rouges , high up on Mont Blanc , during an expedition organised by . Forty years later the remains of two of them were discovered , re-exposed within fissures in the Bossons glacier . They were lower down from the point where they were lost ; the corpse of the third guide was discovered the following year . In 2014 , a group of climbers found a body on the Glacier du Talèfre , close to the Couvercle Hut . It was identified as that of a young Chamonix guide who had been caught in a winter storm during a solo ascent of the Nant Blanc face of the Aiguille Verte in 1982 and was assumed to have fallen into a crevasse . In 2013 , a box of valuable gemstones was found by a climber on the Bossons Glacier . It had re-emerged , having been carried downhill from the site of one of two Air India plane crashes . These occurred at almost identical locations high up near the summit of Mont Blanc : one in 1950 ( Air India Flight 245 ) , and one in 1966 ( Air India Flight 101 ) . Debris from these crashes is still commonly found on the glacier below
Air India Flight 245
Air India Flight 245
Mont Blanc massif