To the native Sherpa tribe of the Eurasian Himalaya mountain region, the Abominable Snowman was a religious figure to be feared and protected, a creature that lived in their folklore and, they were sure, roamed the mountains walking upright on two legs, covered with long dark fur, letting out an occasional eerie howl to remind the mountain herdsman of his existence. In 1986, South Tyrolean mountaineer Reinhold Messner claimed in his autobiography My Quest for the Yeti that the Yeti is actually the endangered Himalayan brown bear, Ursus arctos isabellinus, or Tibetan blue bear, U. a. pruinosus, which can walk both upright or on all fours. [71] [72]

Sykes, Bryan (2016) The Nature of the Beast: The First Genetic evidence on the survival of apemen, yeti, bigfoot, and other mysterious creatures into modern times 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). Kirtley, Bacil F. (April 1964). "Unknown Hominids and New World legends". Western Folklore. 23 (1304): 77–90. doi: 10.2307/1498256. JSTOR 1498256.similar in shape to those of a man, but only six to seven inches long by four inches wide.... The prints were undoubtedly those of a biped."

Covey, Jacob (2006) Beasts: Traditional Hidden Creatures, Seattle, Washington, Fantagraphic Books/WW Norton, pp. 191–93. Kronish, Syd (10 December 1966). "New Bhutan Stamp Shows 'Abomidable Snowman' ". Associated Press via The Morning Record. In 1925, N. A. Tombazi, a photographer and member of the Royal Geographical Society, writes that he saw a creature at about 15,000ft (4,600m) near Zemu Glacier. Tombazi later wrote that he observed the creature from about 200 to 300yd (180 to 270m), for about a minute. "Unquestionably, the figure in outline was exactly like a human being, walking upright and stopping occasionally to pull at some dwarf rhododendron bushes. It showed up dark against the snow, and as far as I could make out, wore no clothes." About two hours later, Tombazi and his companions descended the mountain and saw the creature's prints, described as "similar in shape to those of a man, but only six to seven inches long by four inches wide... [32] The prints were undoubtedly those of a biped." [33] Purported Yeti footprint taken by C.R. Cooke in 1944 Pranavananda, Swami (July–September 1955). "Abominable Snowman". Indian Geographical Journal. 30: 99–104. 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.An early record of reported footprints appeared in 1899 in Laurence Waddell's Among the Himalayas. Waddell reported his guide's description of a large apelike creature that left the prints, which Waddell thought were made by a bear. Waddell heard stories of bipedal, apelike creatures but wrote that "none, however, of the many Tibetans I have interrogated on this subject could ever give me an authentic case. On the most superficial investigation, it always resolved into something that somebody heard tell of." [31] 20th century Footprints: Yeti Footprints Measure 81 by 38 Centimetres (32 by 15 in) According To the Indian Army

In 2003, Japanese researcher and mountaineer Dr. Makoto Nebuka published the results of his twelve-year linguistic study, postulating that the word "Yeti" is a corruption of the word "meti", a regional dialect term for a "bear". Nebuka claims that ethnic Tibetans fear and worship the bear as a supernatural being. [76] Nebuka's claims were subject to almost immediate criticism, and he was accused of linguistic carelessness. Dr. Raj Kumar Pandey, who has researched both Yetis and mountain languages, said "it is not enough to blame tales of the mysterious beast of the Himalayas on words that rhyme but mean different things." [77]

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