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| Footprints around Mt.Everest: Abominable Snowman, you there? |
| 2007-11-30 |
| KATHMANDU (Reuters) - A U.S.-based television channel investigating the existence of the legendary Yeti in Nepal has found footprints similar to those said to be that of the abominable snowman, the company said on Friday. A team of nine producers from Destination Truth, armed with infrared cameras, spent a week in the icy Khumbu region where Mount Everest is located and found the footprints on the bank of Manju river at a height of 2,850 metres (9,350 feet). One of the three footprints discovered on Wednesday is about one foot long, or is of similar size and appearance as shown in sketches of the mystical ape-like creature believed to live in snowy caves, the TV company said. "It is very very similar," Josh Gates, host of the weekly travel adventure television series, told Reuters in Kathmandu after returning from the mountain. "I don't believe it to be (that of) a bear. It is something of a mystery for us," said Gates, 30, an archaeologist by training. Tales by sherpa porters and guides about the wild and hairy creatures lurking in the Himalayas have seized the imagination of foreign mountain climbers going to Mount Everest since the 1920s. Several teams have searched for it and some have even claimed to have discovered footprints. But no one has actually seen the creature nor has it been scientifically established that the Yeti exists. Gates said the footprints on lumps of sandy soil, which would be sent to experts in the United States for analysis, were "relatively fresh left some 24 hours before we found them". "This print is so pristine, so good that I am very intrigued by this," Gates, flanked by his team members, said adding the findings would prompt more investigation into the Yeti. Destination Truth chronicles some of the world's notorious crypto-zoological creatures and unexplained phenomena. Some local sherpas believe that the Himalayas are abodes of strange creatures and consider the Yeti as a protector while others say it is a destroyer. "There is a kind of mysterious creature that lives in the Himalayas," said Ang Tshering Sherpa, chief of Nepal Mountaineering Association in Kathmandu, who hails from the Khumbhu region were Mount Everest is located. |
| Posted by:Sherry |
| #7 mystical ape-like creature Hmm, While some interpretations of the myth say the Yeti is a spirit or enlightened in some way, I'm not sure this is what the reporter really meant to say. It's right up there with the stupid english translator couldn't figure out the difference between the Nepalese words for "Big Ass Monster" and "Big Assed Monster." |
| Posted by: Abdominal Snowman 2007-11-30 22:44 |
| #6 RUMORMILLNEWS Poster > DEC-MARCH 2008 DEEP COSMIC CONJUNCTION - New High-Magnitude or unusual earthquakes around US-World [PACIFIC PLATE spreading?]Comet Trios, intense new Solar Activities, Six-Planet alignment, etc. BETTER TO STAY HOME + INSIDE FOR XMAS + HOLIDAYS??? DREAM/VISION [mine] > Several "minor" Impacts must firstly occur vv EARTH before "the Big One" striketh and cracketh junketh hole-eth the Earth's sphere. D *** NG IT, AS A WHITNEY "GOOD GIRL TRYING TO BE BAD" HUSTON FAN, OSAMA AS MAHDI/SALADIN INCARNATE SHOULD KNOW THIS ALREADY! |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2007-11-30 21:43 |
| #5 Rosie is that you? |
| Posted by: Icerigger 2007-11-30 17:30 |
| #4 Could it be Neanderthal? |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2007-11-30 16:36 |
| #3 Apparently, from what I've read, the Yeti is more likely a big ape, rather than (supposedly, until one of Abdominal Snowman's less polished cousins get swamped by a dozen and more cops and hauled into jail for their repeated brawlings in area redneck bars over the local buxom beauties and who they will dance with or not) an hominid like Bigfoot, or a "wildman" like the Yuren or the various sightings in the Caucasus. Remind me : The Top Ten Cryptozoology Stories for 2007 |
| Posted by: anonymous5089 2007-11-30 14:29 |
| #2 Ahh, an example of the modern day closed mind. |
| Posted by: wxjames 2007-11-30 13:09 |
| #1 Yeah a small group of creatures with an impossibly small gene pool has managed to survive in one of the regions with practically no plant or animal life to speak and without leaving obvious signs along the well known game trails (that is hiking trails). Seems unlikely. More likely is that Indonesian guy with the tree virus has a cousin. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2007-11-30 12:39 |