The Yeti
or abominable snowman has been sighted in the Himalayan Mountains for 100's of years. It is described as being a tall manlike creature with shaggy hair, cone-shaped scalp, pointed ears, hairless chest and human-like face. It has many names like Wild Man, Meh-Teh, Sasquatch, Bigfoot, Alma, Mountain Gorilla, Mountain Giant, Yowie, and many others. There are three different types of : the large, docile one; the savage carnivorous beast about five feet tall, long-haired, ape-like, and muscular build; and a "little man" shy and shaggy. The one that has won popular recognition of the Bhutanese people, is the savage ape-man. All of these different forms of , have two common characteristics. ...
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or photographing it. All attempts have failed but a great deal of fact and fiction about the legend did turn up.
The main evidence of its existance is footprints, sightings, and scalps or hair. Sir Edmund Hillary believed the first footprints were found in the 1890's. Others sources give 1832 as the earliest findings, when B.H. Hodson, the Court of Nepal's first British Resident, reported his native hunters have been frightened by a "Wild Man" that "moved erectly, was covered in long dark hair, and had no tail". The first reliable report was in 1925 when a Greek photographer, N.A. Tombazi, a member of a British geological expedition, saw the creature almost a thousand feet away in an area with an altitude of 15,000 feet. The creature disappeared before Tombazi could photograph it. Tombazi found 15 footprints in the snow, before it lead into thick brush. The locals said he had seen the "Kanchenjunga demon". The best photographs were taken in 1951 by Eric Shipton and ...
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