The Sherpa and the Snowman

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Other terms used by Himalayan peoples do not translate exactly the same, but refer to legendary and indigenous wildlife: Tibet: Mystic Trivia". Iras.ucalgary.ca. 26 September 1998. Archived from the original on 13 January 2012 . Retrieved 27 January 2012. Odette Tchernine (1971). In Pursuit of the Abominable Snowman. Taplinger Publishing. ISBN 978-0-8008-4187-4.

In Russian folklore, the Chuchuna is an entity said to dwell in Siberia. It has been described as six to seven feet tall and covered with dark hair. [ citation needed] According to the native accounts from the nomadic Yakut and Tungus tribes, it is a well built, Neanderthal-like man wearing pelts and bearing a white patch of fur on its forearms. It is said to occasionally consume human flesh, unlike their close cousins, the Almastis. Some witnesses reported seeing a tail on the creature's corpse. It is described as being roughly six to seven feet tall. [ citation needed] There are additional tales of large, reclusive, bipedal creatures worldwide, notably including both " Bigfoot" and the "Abominable Snowman." Coleman, Loren & Clark, Jerome (1999) Cryptozoology A to Z: The Encyclopedia of Loch Monsters, Sasquatch, Chupacabras, and Other Authentic Mysteries of Nature, Simon & Schuster, ISBN 978-0684856025

The Sherpa and the snowman.

Pranavananda, Swami (July–September 1955). "Abominable Snowman". Indian Geographical Journal. 30: 99–104. The Himalayan half man, half ape joined the Loch Ness Monster and the American northwest’s ‘Bigfoot’ as the most popular mythical legends. Rupert Matthews (2014) [2008]. Sasquatch: North America's Enduring Mystery; Kindle locations 1624–1805, 2588–94 . Arcturus Publishing. ISBN 978-1-78404-107-6. a b Howard-Bury, Charles (February 1921). "Some Observations on the Approaches to Mount Everest". The Geographical Journal. 57 (2): 121–24. doi: 10.2307/1781561. JSTOR 1781561.

Cronin, Edward W. (1979). The Arun: A Natural History of the World's Deepest Valley. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. p.153. ISBN 0395262992.

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Peter Byrne reported finding a yeti footprint in 1948, in northern Sikkim, India near the Zemu Glacier, while on holiday from a Royal Air Force assignment in India. [37] Haviland, Charles (1 December 2007). " 'Yeti prints' found near Everest". BBC News . Retrieved 1 December 2007. Times, A. m Rosenthal Special To the New York (5 February 1957). "TEXAN WILL LEAD 'SNOWMAN' HUNT; Will Investigate Tales That Strange Creature Roams Himalayas in Nepal". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331 . Retrieved 14 February 2023. Related: Research Group Believe They Photographed Bigfoot In North Carolina Other Names and The Origin of the Term "Abominable Snowman"

I found the writing very good, readable and it explained things in a sensible, logical way. There was variation in the pace of the story, and it didn't dwell on any particular aspect too long. There was a lot of supplementary information on flora and fauna, especially flowers and birds, but not to such an extent that it becomes a bird fanciers book. At a 2011 conference in Russia, participating scientists and enthusiasts declared having "95% evidence" of the Yeti's existence. [64] However, this claim was disputed later; American anthropologist and anatomist Jeffrey Meldrum, who was present during the Russian expedition, claimed the "evidence" found was simply an attempt by local officials to drum up publicity. [65] In 1832, James Prinsep's Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal published trekker B. H. Hodgson's account of his experiences in northern Nepal. His local guides spotted a tall bipedal creature covered with long dark hair, which seemed to flee in fear. Hodgson concluded it was an orangutan.a b c d e Randi, James (1995). An encyclopedia of claims, frauds, and hoaxes of the occult and supernatural: decidedly sceptical definitions of alternative realities. New York, NY: St. Martin's Griffin. ISBN 978-0-312-15119-5. He wrote about his expedition in his work Mount Everest The Reconnaissance, 1921. In that book, he mentioned that he had found footprints while crossing the Lhagpa La (at an altitude of 21,000 feet or 6,400 meters). Rawicz, Sławomir (1956). "22". The Long Walk. Globe Pequot Press. pp. 258–60. ISBN 978-1-59921-975-2. The use of "Abominable Snowman" began when Henry Newman, a longtime contributor to The Statesman in Calcutta, writing under the pen name "Kim", [9] interviewed the porters of the "Everest Reconnaissance expedition" on their return to Darjeeling. [23] [26] [27] Newman mistranslated the word "metoh" as "filthy", substituting the term "abominable", perhaps out of artistic licence. [28] As author Bill Tilman recounts, "[Newman] wrote long after in a letter to The Times: The whole story seemed such a joyous creation I sent it to one or two newspapers". [23] History and sightings Pre-19th century Lawless, Jill (17 October 2013). "DNA Links Mysterious Yeti To Ancient Polar Bear". Associated Press . Retrieved 22 October 2013.

Daniel Loxton; Donald Prothero (2013). Abominable Science: Origins of the Yeti, Nessie, and Other Famous Cryptids. Chapter 3, written by Prothero. Columbia University Press. pp. 73–116. ISBN 978-0-231-15320-1. On 25 July 2008, the BBC reported that hairs collected in the remote Garo Hills area of North-East India by Dipu Marak had been analysed at Oxford Brookes University in the UK by primatologist Anna Nekaris and microscopy expert Jon Wells. These initial tests were inconclusive, and ape conservation expert Ian Redmond told the BBC that there was similarity between the cuticle pattern of these hairs and specimens collected by Edmund Hillary during Himalayan expeditions in the 1950s and donated to the Oxford University Museum of Natural History, and announced planned DNA analysis. [61] This analysis has since revealed that the hair came from the Himalayan goral. [62]Lan, T.; Gill, S.; Bellemain, E.; Bischof, R.; Zawaz, M.A.; Lindqvist, C. (6 December 2017). "Evolutionary history of enigmatic bears in the Tibetan Plateau–Himalaya region and the identity of the yeti". Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 284 (1868): 20171804. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2017.1804. PMC 5740279. PMID 29187630. Bun Manchi – Nepali for "jungle man" that is used outside Sherpa communities where yeti is the common name. [16] Western interest in the Yeti peaked dramatically in the 1950s. While attempting to scale Mount Everest in 1951, Eric Shipton took photographs of a number of large prints in the snow, at about 6,000m (20,000ft) above sea level. These photos have been subject to intense scrutiny and debate. Some argue they are the best evidence of Yeti's existence, while others contend the prints are those of a mundane creature that have been distorted by the melting snow. [36] [1]