Bossons Glacier
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 Lower part of the Bossons Glacier in August 2007 |
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| location | Haute-Savoie , France | |
| Mountains | Mont Blanc group , Graian Alps | |
| Type | Valley glacier | |
| length | 7.8 km | |
| surface | 9.9 km² | |
| Exposure | North | |
| Altitude range | 4810 m - 1350 m | |
| Coordinates | 45 ° 52 '50 " N , 6 ° 52' 0" E | |
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| drainage | Torrent des Bossons, Arve , Rhone | |
The Glacier des Bossons is a glacier in the Arve valley in the French department of Haute-Savoie near Chamonix . Its name comes from the village of Les Bossons , which lies below the glacier. It flows, as of 2008, on the northern flank of Mont Blanc down to about 1,400 m above sea level down. At the end of the 19th century it reached down to the valley, which is at 1050 m . Despite the decline, its tongue is still the deepest in the Alps .
In the nutrient zone of the glacier on the Mont Blanc massif, a Lockheed L-749 Constellation , named "Malabar Princess" collided with the Montblanc pre-summit Rochers de la Tournette on November 3, 1950 on Air India flight 245 . All 48 passengers died. About 15 years later crashed on 24 January 1966, a Boeing 707 of Air India again at Flight 101 just below the summit of the glacier. All 106 passengers on board, including the Indian nuclear physicist Homi Jehangir Bhabha , as well as the 11 crew members were killed.
Finds from these two accidents are still being made in the glacier area today:
- In 1986 Christian Mollier, the then operator of the “Chalet du Glacier”, a managed mountain hut at the foot of the glacier at 1,425 m above sea level, found a wheel of the chassis of the “Malabar Princess” who had crashed in November 1950 in front of the chalet on the glacier. The found wheel had been carried down the valley by the glacier for 36 years. It is now on display in the “Chalet du Glacier”.
- In 2008, a climber found several Indian newspapers dated January 23, 1966.
- On September 8, 2012, a mailbag with diplomatic mail from the Indian Foreign Ministry was recovered and passed on to the Indian Embassy in Paris, which could be assigned to Air India flight 101 from 1966 and thus reappeared more than 46 years after the accident.
- In September 2013, a French climber found a small metal container engraved with Made in India on the glacier . This contained sapphires , rubies and emeralds worth several 100,000 euros, which had probably belonged to one of the passengers on Air India flight 101 and were intended for a recipient in London.
- On June 22, 2014, a French climber found a camera that belonged to one of the aircraft occupants. The film in the camera was too badly damaged to be able to develop photos from it.
- In July 2017, a French treasure hunter found a mummified hand and part of a thigh on Glacier des Bossons .
Glacier des Bossons 1890
Glacier tongue of Glacier des Bossons September 2006
Web links
- Glacier des Bossons on Glaciers online
- Glacier des Bossons on the ETHorama platform
Individual evidence
- ^ Glacier des Bossons and Glacier de Taconnaz. In: Glaciers online. Retrieved November 1, 2019 .
- ↑ Chamonix . In: Meyers Konversations-Lexikon . 4th edition. Volume 3, Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig / Vienna 1885–1892, p. 931.
- ^ The Chalet du glacier du Mont Blanc et des Bossons: local interests. The Landing Gear from the "Malabar Princess". Chalet du Glacier des Bossons, archived from the original on May 30, 2009 ; accessed on August 7, 2014 .
- ^ India diplomatic bag found in French Alps after 46 years. BBC News, August 30, 2013, accessed September 28, 2013 .
- ↑ Alpine climber finds 'India plane crash' jewels. BBC News, September 27, 2013, accessed September 28, 2013 .
- ↑ Mountaineer discovers mummy hand. 20 Minuten, July 29, 2017, accessed July 29, 2017 .