The jute bag, stamped ‘Diplomatic mail’ and ‘Ministry of External Affairs’, was recovered by mountain rescue worker Arnaud Christmann and his neighbour Jules Berger on August 21.

“Some tourists came and told us they had seen something shining on the Bossons glacier,” so he and his neighbour decided to go have a look, said Christmann. “We found pieces of the cabin, a shoe, cables - it’s a real dump up there!”