A Treasure Chest Worth Millions of Dollars is Hiding in the Rocky Mountains, Waiting for You to Find It

Clue Number Ten

Several years after Fenn published his original poem, he released a tenth clue that narrowed down the search significantly. He said definitively that the treasure was hidden more than 5,000 feet above sea level. Since this clue narrowed the field so far, thousands more wannabe treasure hunters ran to the Rockies to find their riches.

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