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.
cool! you know i always thought that its possible for all these things to exist. know why?
in europe youve got stories of elves and dwarves... across the globe there are also stories of that. and thats even before the europeans discovered the far east. and weve also got true stories here that involve revengeful dwarves. _________________
cool! you know i always thought that its possible for all these things to exist. know why?
in europe youve got stories of elves and dwarves... across the globe there are also stories of that. and thats even before the europeans discovered the far east. and weve also got true stories here that involve revengeful dwarves.
I believe that creatures such as the Yeti, bigfoot and the abdonimal Snowman exist. Exept that they are some undiscovered speices of Ape or monkey
i believe that unless something is disproved, there is a possibility that it exists. but if we cannot prove that something exists, there is also a possibility of it not existing. existence, after all, is not dependent upon proofs. but knowledge of something's existence (or nonexistence) is dependent upon the proofs. _________________
this is really kool. when i was little, i was scared that these creatures might exist... but know, the way i see it is that they're just like humans, or any other animal on earth. just because ancient peoples have stories about them doesn't excactly mean that these are the animals they were talking about, or that they're entirely bad ... and scientists are even discovering other unknown animals, so it is possible for these creatures to go undetected
ilya150 wrote:
I believe that creatures such as the Yeti, bigfoot and the abdonimal Snowman exist. Exept that they are some undiscovered speices of Ape or monkey
aren't the Yeti and the Abdonimal Snowman the same thing thing?
and i agree with this too _________________ An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language.
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this is really kool. when i was little, i was scared that these creatures might exist... but know, the way i see it is that they're just like humans, or any other animal on earth. just because ancient peoples have stories about them doesn't excactly mean that these are the animals they were talking about ... and scientists are even discovering other unknown animals, so it is possible for these creatures to go undetected
ilya150 wrote:
I believe that creatures such as the Yeti, bigfoot and the abdonimal Snowman exist. Exept that they are some undiscovered speices of Ape or monkey
aren't the Yeti and the Abdonimal Snowman the same thing thing?
and i agree with this too
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