All about the Yeti

[daledo]

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A Russian region in Siberia on Monday confidently proclaimed that its mountains are home to yetis after finding "indisputable proof" of the existence of the hairy beasts in an expedition.

The local administration of the Kemerovo region in the south of Siberia said in a statement on its website that footprints and possibly even hair samples belonging to the yeti were found on the research trip to its remote mountains.

"During the expedition to the Azasskaya cave, conference participants gathered indisputable proof that the Shoria mountains are inhabited by the 'Snow Man'," the Kemerovo region administration said in a press-release.

The expedition was organised after Kemerovo's governor invited researchers from the United States, Canada, and several other countries to share their research and stories of encounters with the creature at a conference.

"They found his footprints, his supposed bed, and various markers with which the yeti marks his territory," the statement said. The collected "artifacts" will be analysed in a special laboratory, it said.

Yetis, or Abominable Snowmen, are hairy ape-like creatures of popular myth, that are generally held to inhabit the Himalayas.

But some believe Russia also holds a population of yetis, which it calls Snow Men, in remote areas of Siberia.

Kemerovo region's Shoria is a sparsely populated territory in Western Siberia that has historically been a territory of coal and metal mining.

The region, the administrative center of Kuznetsk coal basin, has pursued the elusive Yeti for several years as it tries to develop tourism into its mostly industrial economy.

Considering the latest findings, the region may "create a special research center to study the Yeti" in the regional university and "create a journal" dedicated to the science of the Yeti, the administration's statement said.
source (http://news.ninemsn.com.au/world/8358611/siberian-region-confirms-yeti-exists)

[daledo]

A conference has announced that given recent evidence they are 95 percent convinced the yeti, a mythical or perhaps actual primate, exists in the cold wilds of Siberia. Scientists and cryptozoologists (those who have a fascination for the 'study of hidden species' such as Bigfoot) met in the Kemerovo region of Russia to exchange information on the yeti, also known as the Abominable Snowman, and to conduct fieldwork. According to a statement from the conference, members found new evidence of the yeti's cryptic existence.

"During an expedition to the Azasskuyu cave, conference members collected irrefutable evidence of the habitation of the Snow Man in the Shoria Mountains. They found his footprints, his supposed bed, and various markers with which the yeti marks his territory," reads a statement from the conference.

A Russian scientists, Anatoly Fokin, also found several hairs that he said may belong to the yeti. 'Yeti hairs' collected in the Himalayas recently turned out to be those of a goral, a wild ungulate. The hairs from Russia will be analyzed as well.

Conference members, however, did not come away with photographs, video, or most importantly for skeptics an actual yeti—living or dead—to prove its existence, but still stated there was 95 percent certainty of its existence.

Some media outlets have labeled the conference largely a publicity stunt to attract tourists to the remote region, currently dominated by coal and metal industries. Conference members came from as far afield as the US, Canada, Spain, Sweden and Mongolia.

However, some well-respected scientists, such as Jane Goodall, have said it's possible a large undiscovered primate still exists and is the source of sightings around the yeti, sasquatch, or Sumatra's orang pendak.

Although newly discovered mammals are usually rodents or bats, there have been new monkeys discovered in Africa, Asia, and South America recently. Still these are small animals, nothing close to the reputed size of a yeti.

"We have concluded that these living beings are in principle human beings because they can even talk and communicate with people," Igor Burtsaev who initiated the conference recently said. "They are another species that differ from us, of course. Yetis are well adapted to nature. Their life style is similar to that of animals. They do not use tools, clothes or fire but are quite intelligent." Burtsaev believes these 'beings' may be long-surviving populations of Neanderthals, which most scientists say went extinct over 30,000 years ago.

The conference was the first in half a century to bring yeti experts together. There is talk of creating a yeti research center in Russia.

Source (http://news.mongabay.com/2011/1010-hance_yeti_russia.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+MongabaycomNews+%28Mongabay.com+news%29)

[jagman]

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Officials in Siberia say they have found "indisputable proof" of the existence of yetis.

Local government officials in Kemerovo said footprints and possibly even hair samples belonging to the yeti - or abominable snowman - had been found on a research trip.

"During the expedition to the Azasskaya cave, conference participants gathered indisputable proof that the Shoria mountains are inhabited by the Snow Man," the Kemerovo region administration said.

The expedition was organised after Kemerovo's governor invited researchers from the US, Canada, and other countries to share their research and stories of encounters with the creature at a conference.

"They found his footprints, his supposed bed, and various markers with which the yeti marks his territory," the statement said. The 'evidence' will be analysed in a special laboratory, it continued.

Kemerovo region's Shoria is a sparsely populated territory in Western Siberia that has historically been a territory of coal and metal mining.

The region, the administrative centre of Kuznetsk coal basin, has pursued the elusive yeti for several years as it tries to develop tourism into its mostly industrial economy.

[jagman]

Ah, The elusive big foot creature. If this creature does exist I hope its left alone! This creature has made a choice to live away from man
and war! If they do find it, I am sure scientists will poke and prod at it! They will put it in some kind of habitat or zoo for all to see!

[Ammit]

Ah, The elusive big foot creature. If this creature does exist I hope its left alone! This creature has made a choice to live away from man
and war! If they do find it, I am sure scientists will poke and prod at it! They will put it in some kind of habitat or zoo for all to see!

I agree 100% Jagman. This species if it exists needs to be left the F#'K alone by us savage people, it has survived ( if real ) this long without any human intervention and I dare say that one day we may need to learn how to survive from such species.....

[GlassSteagallfan]

Ah, The elusive big foot creature. If this creature does exist I hope its left alone! This creature has made a choice to live away from man
and war! If they do find it, I am sure scientists will poke and prod at it! They will put it in some kind of habitat or zoo for all to see!

I agree 100% Jagman. This species if it exists needs to be left the F#'K alone by us savage people, it has survived ( if real ) this long without any human intervention and I dare say that one day we may need to learn how to survive from such species.....


We may find that yeti and bigfoot are Dick Cheney style Chew-bacca's whom were prosecuted and sent away from their home world to live on a planet with totally alien beings.

[noprophet]

I've always been suspicious that if "bigfoot" does exist he may very well be just a group of aliens studying the fauna and flora of the planet with a complete indifference to humans.

This could be why we never find bones.

[Sirius White]

As I understand it, the big foot beings can travel in between harmonics, from here into the inner earth. They are very sensitive/compassionate creatures. Haha I know, far fetched. Just making random comment here :)

[Ammit]

Well, what ever they are and even if they even really exist, they are doing really well hiding from us bad ones.....

[RMorgan]

So, where´s the evidence! I´d love to see it! Personally, I believe it´s very possible for such beings to exist. A legend never comes out of nowhere.

Some people believe they are magical beings with the ability to teleport, become invisible and such things....Others believe they are simply Neanderthals...

Who knows...

[TelosianEmbrace]

There are counterparts to the yeti in many countries around the world. A great website which has bigfoot/sasquatch sound recordings is here www.bigfootsounds.com The vocalisations really have that 'something' about them. In Australia we have the yowie, and a good resource for sighting reports is here www.yowiehunters.com Dean Harrison, who runs the site, regularly goes out on expeditions and interviews witnesses. They have the Yeren in China www.unknown-creatures.com/yeren.html the Hibagon in Japan www.occultopedia.com/h/hibagon.htm the Orang Pendek in Sumatra and many others. A group of explorers to the underground tunnel system many years ago came across a bad-ass variant which was constantly battling the giant serpents under the Earth.

It will be fascinating once this is all over to finally have benevolent contact with them, and to build a greater understanding and affinity for them.

[Camilo]

Yetis are known to be highly evolved beings, peaceful, telepathic and way cool. That's why they don't get in touch with US!

[Sirius White]

There will come a time when we will meet and connect at a level that is simply......for lack of words- in a form of no-thought. They are highly empathic and connected to the spirit of earth. They don't want anything to do with us in our current state- it would hurt them and terrify them not anything to do with the physical, but in the same way animals instinctively know to stay away from us.

[Simonm]

I urge everyone to read a book called "Everything you know is wrong" by Lloyd Pye. Fully explains about these creatures and thier habitats.

[Cidersomerset]

RT commenting on the Yetti conference.....

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[jackovesk]

Is the Yeti nesting in Siberia? Strange twisted tree arches 'prove legendary creature exists'

Twisted branches found in Kemerovo region could finally prove Yeti is no longer the stuff of legends.

By Lucy Buckland

15th November 2011

Hunters are claiming they have discovered the nest of a legendary Yeti tucked away in a remote area of Russia.

And experts are hailing the discovery of bizarrely twisted trees in the Kemerovo region as the final piece in the puzzle to prove the abominable snowman is real.

Experts stumbled across the trees, twisted by force to form an arch, in the area -which is known for sightings of the wildman.

And Yeti experts who met at a conference in Moscow to discuss the find mounted an exhibition to Siberia to see the nest for themselves.

Biologist John Bindernagel, 69, told The Sun, 'We didn't feel like the trees we saw in Siberia had been done by a man or another mammal.

'Twisted trees like this have also been observed in North America and they could fit in with the theory that Bigfoot makes nests.'

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Hunted: An artist's impression shows a primitive Yeti emerging from a cave

Sightings of the Yeti have been reported in France, North America and the Himalayas but Dr Bindernagel said these are mainly ignored by scientists who are put off by 'jokes and taboos.'
He told The Sun: 'I am nearly 70 so time is running out for me.'

The latest discovery comes a month after Russian officials said they found ‘indisputable evidence’ that yetis exist.

Their claim followed an international conference and expedition to track down the Abominable Snowman in the Mount Shoria area.

However, doubt was already been cast over the ‘find’ – as the team has no convincing photographic or DNA evidence.

Their claim appears to be based a single unclear footprint and a small sample of grey ‘hair’, found in a cave.

The administration of the Kemerovo region, where the cave is situated, yesterday announced that ‘indisputable evidence’ had been found.

But critics said the expedition was more about making the area a tourist destination than true science.

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Evidence: Vladimir Makouta, head of Siberia's Tastagol district administration, and the sheriff of the area's Kabyrza settlement, show twisted aspen branches believed to have been caused by a Yeti

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Made by a legend? Experts say these arches prove a Yeti has been trawling the region and had nested nearby

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On the trail: this strange footprint found in the snow was also hailed as proof the Yeti exists

Researchers who led the search said that they are closer than ever to catching one the creatures.

'During the expedition to the Azasskaya cave, conference participants gathered indisputable proof that the Shoria mountains are inhabited by the Snow Man,' the Kemerovo region administration announced yesterday.

'They found his footprints, his supposed bed, and various markers with which the Yeti uses to denote his territory.'

The markers appeared to be mainly broken trees and some Russian media reports have treated the Yeti claims with considerable scepticism.

Despite this, the local government officials professed themselves either certain or 95 per cent certain of the existence of Yeti in a highland area known as Mount Shoria.

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The hair thought to be from a Yeti was found in the Kemerovo region 2,600 miles east of Moscow

An American housewife told a previous conference she regularly feeds Yeti in her back garden in Michigan but was unable to produce a single photograph of an elusive creature rumoured to exist for thousands of years.

One cynical Russian media report summed up the mission as 'we haven't actually found anything, but we very, very much wanted to have found something'.

Shortly before the 'experts' arrived, another hunt to the same cave to find the Yeti was led by the 'Beast of the East' - former Russian heavyweight boxing champion Nikolai Valuyev. It ended in failure, though locals saw it as a key plank in the region's bid to boost tourism.
'Valuyev did not manage to meet the Yeti itself but on the way he discovered 'traces' such as broken tree branches,' said a spokesman.

'I saw lots of journalists but no Yetis,' admitted the boxer.

Dmitry Islamov, Vice Governor of Kemerovo Region on Economics and Regional Development said: 'It doesn't matter that the Kuzbass might not have Yetis. The main thing is that when people come to the Shoria Mountains, they truly enjoy its unique nature.'


STILL AT LARGE: THE HISTORY OF THE YETI

The first accounts of Yetis emerged before the 19th century from Buddhists who believed that the creature inhabited the Himalayas.

They depicted the mysterious beast as having similarities to an ape and carrying a large stone as a weapon while making a whistling sound.

Popular interest in creature gathered pace in early 20th century as tourists began making their own trips to the region to try and capture the Yeti. They reported seeing strange markings in the snow.

The Daily Mail led a trip called the the Snowman Expedition in 1954 to Everest. During the trip mountaineering leader John Angelo Jackson photographed ancient paintings of Yetis and large footprints in the snow.

A number of hair samples were also found that were believed to have come from a Yeti scalp.

British mountaineer Don Whillans claimed to have witnessed a creature when scaling Annapurna in 1970.


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2061331/Twisted-trees-proof-Bigfoot-Is-Yeti-nesting-Siberia.html

[13th Warrior]

Factoid: Siberia has 8 time zones.

[jagman]

Oxford University Is Hunting For the Yeti
While most of us probably suspect that the yeti is a mythical beast, the finest minds in the world beg to differ. Which is why Oxford University has just announced that it is going on a yeti hunt, to establish once and for all whether the creature has ever existed.

In collaboration with the Lausanne Museum of Zoology, Oxford University is inviting people and organisations with supposed evidence of the existence of the yeti to submit it for testing. Anyone can submit an entry, and in the first instance all that's required is some data about the sample: what it is, when and where it was collected, that kind of thing.

Once they've received a respectable number of samples, they'll choose the most convincing and ask the owners to send them in for scrutiny—including thorough genetic analysis. With any luck, the study should bring together the strongest evidence around the world to settle the issue once and for all. Bryan Sykes, from Oxford University, explained to Wired.co.uk:

"Theories as to their species identification vary from surviving collateral hominid species, such as Homo neanderthalensis or Homo floresiensis, to large primates like Gigantopithecus widely thought to be extinct, to as yet unstudied primate species or local subspecies of black and brown bears.

"Mainstream science remains unconvinced by these reports both through lack of testable evidence and the scope for fraudulent claims. However, recent advances in the techniques of genetic analysis of organic remains provide a mechanism for genus and species identification that is unbiased, unambiguous and impervious to falsification. It is possible that a scientific examination of these neglected specimens could tell us more about how Neanderthals and other early hominids interacted and spread around the world."

The myth—or true story, let's be open-minded if Oxford professors are being—is known across countries and cultures throughout the world, so the university can expect a wide range of samples to be put forward. If you're on the hunt yourself, the researchers point out that hair shafts are particularly desirable
http://http://www.coasttocoastam.com/

[ViralSpiral]

Lol

tell them to look here

http://cdn.smosh.com/sites/default/files/bloguploads/wtf-warning-sign-do-not-look-here.jpg

[Mare]

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Leave them alone!!

[Maia Gabrial]

First, in The Dulce Book it says that the one type of Yeti that lives deep within the Earth are very vicious and have an IQ of about 15. Mean and unintelligent. Not something you want to run into....Supposedly, there is a friendlier bunch near the surface. But I don't think I want to chance running into those either....

Second, I astral traveled to where several of them were. They weren't friendly, but they did talk to me, saying that they didn't like what humans were doing to the forests. With that, they went to attack me. Fortunately for me, I was behind a fence, but that didn't stop one of them from trying to claw at me up through the fence.

From that experience, I can verify that they're mean critters...

[RMorgan]

Hey folks,

If this big guy really exists, I´d rather if people just leave him alone.

Most probably, if someone finds him or any scientific proof about him, they would just hunt him down and put him in a lab.

Cheers,

Raf.

[Timreh]

Of course I believe Yeti's exist, different country different name/form..
Surfing for information a while ago I stumbled apon an interesting theory which might explain why they can be so illusive..

16481


Here is an interesting exerpt from the website of the book "The Sasquatch People"


Kewaunee’s new book is the ultimate book on the Sasquatch phenomenon. Because the Sasquatch are genuinely people—not animals—Kewaunee is a crypto-anthropologist, not a crypto-zoologist. He elaborates on why they are humanoid beings and their purpose here, based on 32 years of interacting with the giants (and ETs) (out of the 55 years researching them). Kewaunee draws information from 187 witnesses who also experienced telepathic communication. Quantum physics describes the reality of mental telepathy, invisibility, inter-dimensionalism, and other PSI phenomena, and is actually juxtaposed with psychic Sasquatch and ET behavior.
Kewaunee has been successful in his research because of his benign, spiritual, field methodology (no guns or cameras)—not unlike Dr. Jane Goodall’s approach with chimpanzees, except the Sasquatch are highly evolved nature people. They are terrestrial extraterrestrials, living inside giants’ bodies. In his book, the forest giants reveal a salient message to humanity—that the planet is dying at the hands of exploitative man and in 2012 there will be a huge shift in human consciousness that most earthlings are ill prepared to face. The Sasquatch people, who are the ultimate environmentalists, want to share their ancient wisdom with the human, but few are listening.
Although there is a chapter on the Bigfoot/ET/UFO connection, the UFO phenomenon is woven onto every chapter, since many of the Sasquatch work with several races of friendly Star People as they prepare to assist humanity for the coming cosmic Earth changes.
http://sasquatchpeople.com/

[jagman]

A few years ago there was a sample taken from Texas. DNA results on the hair sample showed that it closely mirrored the orang family.

[jagman]

C2C Tonight First Hour: Scholar of Bigfoot history, Steven Streufert, reports on a planned study by Oxford University to test DNA samples of the elusive creature.

[Timreh]

Hey folks,

If this big guy really exists, I´d rather if people just leave him alone.

Most probably, if someone finds him or any scientific proof about him, they would just hunt him down and put him in a lab.

Cheers,

Raf.

I agree Raf..

It seems we ridicule, hunt and eventually destroy that which we dont understand
They should be left alone..

Maybe only those with pure intentions are deserving of such an encounter ?

[pugwash84]

If they find them they should do what David Attenborough does and watch them from a distance and not intervene.

[markpierre]

This is exciting news. I can't think of a better, more fulfilling, more climactic way to go than to die of fright meeting one.

Guys have been sending clear evidence away continually for many years. No 'establishment' ever talks about conclusions.

If you DNA test a hair and it says it's from an unknown anthropoid, it's probably not a bear or a goat.

I wouldn't expect to hear anything more from these guys on the matter.

[Maia Gabrial]

If people are bold enough to trek INTO the earth where the yetis live, they may find them.... But they're mean critters and so are the aliens that live underground.
In The Dulce Book some of the entrance points are given, but with lots of warnings IF you want to get back to the surface. Of course, there will always be foolishly brave people who'll do it anyway.....

[Skywizard]

http://www.independent.co.uk/incoming/article8884989.ece/ALTERNATES/w460/web-bigfoot-rex.jpg
Could a species of bear have been mistaken for the Yeti?


Alleged Yeti hairs retrieved from the Himalayas have been identified as those of a rare bear sub-species.

Genetics professor Bryan Sykes of Oxford University had set out to explore the myth of the enigmatic Yeti or 'Abominable Snowman' by collecting and testing samples of hair retrieved from regions of the Himalayas where the creature is believed to exist.

For his analysis he conducted tests on two hair samples, one from Ladakh and one from Bhutan. What he discovered was that one of the samples matched an ancient polar bear jawbone from Norway dating back between 40,000 and 120,000 years.

"This is an exciting and completely unexpected result that gave us all a surprise," said Prof Sykes. "There's more work to be done on interpreting the results. I don't think it means there are ancient polar bears wandering around the Himalayas."

The results do however suggest the possibility that the legend of the Yeti could in part be attributed to the presence of bears in the region.

"It could mean there is a sub species of brown bear in the High Himalayas descended from the bear that was the ancestor of the polar bear," Prof Sykes added. "Or it could mean there has been more recent hybridisation between the brown bear and the descendent of the ancient polar bear."

Source: http://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/news/256345/yeti-dna-matches-prehistoric-polar-bear
Read Full Story: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/has-the-yeti-mystery-been-solved-new-research-finds-bigfoot-dna-matches-rare-polar-bear-8884811.html


peace...
skywizard

[Ellisa]

I read about this in my non-tech newspaper this morning, and was going to research it for myself. Then I wondered if you would have posted it, SW! Thanks for doing the work for me. It seems to me highly likely that there may be 'things' we haven't discovered yet lurking in that wilderness of ice and snow. It could also be that climate change may force the discovery of the possible secrets.

[markpierre]

The hairs were from bears, not yeti. That's what it proved. Hard to imagine that scientists can be that stupid.
But it's cool to know there are bears out there that haven't been cataloged. That means that the yeti is probably
apt to be acceptable eventually too. Give them some real yeti DNA and see what they come up with.

[jagman]

If this creature is from the polar bear,It's probably a ferocious predator. The polar bear is
one of the few animals that hunt man for food.

[DNA]

Edgar Cayce stated bigfoot was a genetic hybrid of man and bear put together in the time of atlantis. Dr. Ketchum announced in 2012 that her attempt to unravel the genome from bigfoot samples given her by David Paulides was in fact a hybrid that included human dna that was only 13000 years old.

[shadowstalker]

Edgar Cayce stated bigfoot was a genetic hybrid of man and bear put together in the time of atlantis. Dr. Ketchum announced in 2012 that her attempt to unravel the genome from bigfoot samples given her by David Paulides was in fact a hybrid that included human dna that was only 13000 years old.
Which book would that be?
I have several Edgar Cayce books on my nook self I have yet to read.

[markpierre]

Edgar Cayce stated bigfoot was a genetic hybrid of man and bear put together in the time of atlantis. Dr. Ketchum announced in 2012 that her attempt to unravel the genome from bigfoot samples given her by David Paulides was in fact a hybrid that included human dna that was only 13000 years old.

Ahhh. That's really interesting. That challenges what little shred of reasoning I have left really well. I don't question Cayce.
Ya gotta love those Atlantians thinkin; 'in 13,000 years those guys are gonna crap their pants.'

[Atlas]

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[Atlas]

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[Atlas]

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[Atlas]

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[Atlas]

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[Atlas]

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[Atlas]

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[Jules]

Like dragons, creatures like the Yeti are in stories and history throughout mankind. Could people fake being an animal? Of course, some even camouflage being real people! Unless a person has a real experience, how can one judge if something exists or not? Just don't get drunk and dress up as a mythical creature, probably not the best idea...

[Cardillac]

if one has read the research/books by David Paulides ("Missing 411") and followed the research of genetecist Dr. Melba Kethchum the concept of Big Foot/Sasquatsch/Yeti may not be as far-fetched as we've been lead to believe- the world out there is not what we've been told (I think we'll all agree to that otherwise we would't be on this forum)-

be well all-

Larry

[Bill Ryan]

Eric Shipton...

Was a very highly respected British mountaineer.

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7YxzzpC4N94/TyO0RCAkxMI/AAAAAAAAu4I/bQkxoOXfhuE/s1600/yeti1.jpg

The tracks he saw were these...

http://i.livescience.com/images/i/000/069/709/i02/yeti-photo-5.jpeg

And the most famous photograph, widely reported in British newspapers, was this one:

http://cdn3.computerhoy.com/sites/computerhoy.com/files/editores/user-11130/recorte620_fotos_huella_yeti_christie2.jpg

[Carmody]

If there was only more than the one footprint shot. I expect that there is. More than one shot is required to dispel attacks that try to disassemble the story into chaos with a strong attack/analysis on the one (closeup) footprint seen.

[Bill Ryan]

If there was only more than the one footprint shot. I expect that there is.

Yes, my understanding is that that one (taken with the ice axe) is the clearest, that appeared in all the British papers.

There's another one of the same footprint, here — no ice axe this time:

http://i.imgur.com/HlhxNLx.jpg

Shipton said that the tracks appeared to be several days old, and most of them had melted to some degree in the sun, despite the freezing surface temperature. The one that was published I think was simply the most distinct, showing the shape of the toes really very well.

[21g]

This recent ish video from Russia shows a similar gait to the Shipton tracks.


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[Bill Ryan]

This recent ish video from Russia shows a similar gait to the Shipton tracks.


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Wow... well worth watching this fascinating short video. Three Russian kids following these huge tracks in the snow, filmed in real time, Blair-Witch-Project style. They're talking to each other throughout, encounter a creature in the middle distance, pause for a few moments, and then run.

The large tracks look to me like they might be a composite overlay of smaller footprints of two creatures, one following in the steps of the other. It'd sure be interesting for a native Russian speaker to listen to the dialog and pick up whether this is a prank (which it theoretically could be) — or whether it was all very much for real. A Russian speaker could tell.

[21g]

Their was a documentary ( BBC , i think ) where a well known Russian boxer speaks with the children
in this video and their families. Cant remember the context of how this occurred, unfortunately.

From memory, their were no obvious red flags. I chalked it down as a definately maybe :)

[Atlas]

Here's what the original uploader of the video (KuzYeti.ru) says:


Discovery Channel is going to the end of the year aired a series of programs about the mysterious and unknown of the 14 series, two of which will be devoted to Russian phenomenon - Dyatlov Pass and Kuzbass Bigfoot. (Source: Journalists Discovery Channel came to Kuzbass, to unravel the mystery of the Yeti (http://kuzyeti.ru/1271))
Below is a google translation of the original article by KuzYeti.ru:
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Children removed the Yeti on a mobile phone
Students from Kuzbass Russian village-Urschi filmed on a mobile phone huge footprints in the snow, and a creature that left them. According to experts of the international center hominology guys we saw Bigfoot. The video was the first video evidence of existence of the Yeti, shot in Russia.

Schoolboy Yevgeny Anisimov with his friends, teenagers 10-12 years old, noticed the snow huge fresh tracks. The guys decided to see who has left such an unusual prints and went on the trail. Eugene Turn the camera on a cell phone and filmed everything. Chain prints led school to the ravine, which was among the trees, they saw a large hairy creature with long arms, which is to find the surveillance, turned and darted into a windbreak. This is clearly seen in the video. There was a meeting of the village near the Russian-Urschi Leninsk-Kuznetsk area at the end of January 2013.

The father of one of the witnesses sent a sensational video hominology center. According to the center's director, Igor Burtsev, many years has been studying the phenomenon of Bigfoot, the center's specialists have carefully studied the video and concluded that it is not a fake.

"When watching a video by our experts no doubt that the shot was just" Bigfoot ", it could be seen and elongated, initially dangle hands later when running to get almost to the ground, and his posture and response and movements - everything speaks for the fact that the actual shooting! "- said Burtsev.

According to the scientist, this video will put an end to the discussion of whether there is in fact in the Kuzbass Bigfoot or not.

"Despite the insinuations opponents, including foreign ones (for example, the recent unsubstantiated statement of the London newspaper The Sun), the existence in the Kemerovo region of the mysterious inhabitants -" snow people ", or the Yeti - confirmed by a growing number of clear evidence, in particular - the first in the history of Russia is quite clear video filming of one of these creatures. "

The first reports of a meeting with Bigfoot appeared in Kuzbass in 2005. In the area of ​​the Spassky Meadows local resident saw a large hairy creature. Then, in the same place repeatedly found confirmation of hominid life: twisted branches, footprints and broken branches. Most often, Bigfoot and the traces of their stay are in Mountain Shoria. In 2012 I managed to make photos yeti young zoologist Oksana Zhukov, who saw from afar a humanoid creature in the snow in the area of ​​Yurga.

Source: http://kuzyeti.ru/1211
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[Atlas]

[...] no obvious red flags.
An orange flag though! 2 years before this video appeared, there was a "bigfoot" home-made video competition in the same region as reported at the time by KuzYeti.ru (google translated):

In the Kemerovo region declared a competition for the best movie about Bigfoot

While scientists are looking for documentary evidence of the existence of Bigfoot, creative people are calling display his vision of his life.

At the regional competition of amateur videos taken individual and group works of authorship. Basic requirements: each work should bear a positive mood. You can shoot with a digital video camera, camera or even a mobile phone. Time format - no more than five minutes.

The founders and organizers of the contest - the Department of Culture and National Policy of Kemerovo region and "Kuzbasskino." Acceptance of entries begins today. For information call (384-2) 57-22-76.

Source: http://kuzyeti.ru/760

[Tangri]

It looks like a traffic stopped impaired driver test's trace in a single line.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UaidTfvgRQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NG3bZpeJ9l8

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[Innocent Warrior]

This thread is awesome, bookmarked, thanks Atlas.

[Atlas]

Peter Byrne with the famous Yeti scalp, at Pangboche Temple in the Sola Khumbu district of the Himalaya in 1958:

http://www.petercbyrne.com/images/pic_greatsearches6.jpg
http://www.petercbyrne.com/greatsearches.html

[21g]

Terrific posts, Atlas.

Thank you !

Orange flag indeed,yet seems to stand up to scrutiny.

The Peter Byrne image has the classic conical shape associated with bigfoot.
Lovely find.

[Atlas]

Yeti or Not ?

Dr. Mark Evans, a veterinarian and explorer, is on a mission to sift fact from folklore and distill the plausible from the possible as he searches for a rational explanation for the mysterious Himalayan biped known as the Yeti.

https://img.123data.ru/2016/06/15/poster/d28ce6039691e28c7dea38fd71e065c6-yeti-or-not-1465979212.jpeg

Watch the full documentary here: https://123movies.is/film/yeti-or-not-13097

Duration: 90 min - Release: 2016

[Bill Ryan]

Articles or reports about the Yeti aren't nearly as common as those about Sasquatch or Bigfoot, but there's good reason to assume they're very closely related.

Here's one just published today by ExporersWeb:


https://explorersweb.com/newcomers-guide-the-yeti

Newcomer’s Guide to the Yeti

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The Yeti, it seems, has shown its elusive head, or rather foot, once again.

Today, Mingma G, a respected Sherpa climber and guide, shared two photos of an alleged Yeti print. Tulku Ngawang Lapsum of Beding village in the Rolwaling Valley took the photos “in the vicinity of the holy cave of Urgen Drukang in Na village,” reported Mingma G.

As European mountaineers Eric Shipton and Reinhold Messner did in the past, Mingma G does not actually express his own views on the Abominable Snowman. He just says that people in the Rolwaling Valley where he lives believe in the creature, “and our elderly generations have seen it.”

“These footprints are around two feet apart,” Mingma G said, citing witnesses. “They are quite distinct from those of humans and other animals such as bears. As locals, we believe they must be those of a Yeti.”

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Alleged Yeti prints from Rolwaling last Saturday. Photo: Tulku Ngawang Lapsum, shared on Facebook by Mingma G.

Mingma G then recalled the most famous early report of the Yeti in Rolwaling. In 1951, Eric Shipton and his party were crossing the Melung La, the pass above Beding village, when he saw similar prints.

70 years of Yeti and men

At the time, Shipton’s prestige as an explorer placed him above an easily fooled dupe or a person prone to believe in local superstitions. The print was a U.S. size 9.5 — hardly a Bigfoot. At the same time, the print was nearly twice as broad as a typical human footprint, according to Shipton’s partner Michael Ward. The big toe also seemed more thumb-like, like a primate’s.

“We noticed that whenever a narrow six-inch-wide crevasse was crossed, there seemed to be claw marks in the snow at the end of the toe,” Ward wrote.

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How it all began: The famous image, shot by Eric Shipton in 1951, with an ice axe head for comparison.

Shipton’s photos became instantly famous. Audiences enthusiastically welcomed this Himalayan representative of similar elusive creatures around the world — Bigfoot or the Sasquatch in the U.S., Kunk in the Andes, Yowie in Australia, and Chuchuna in Siberia. Even in the thick beech forests of Spain’s Basque Country, the Basajaun lurks as “the guardian of the forest”.

In 1958, Belgian cartoonist Herge included a Yeti in a comic book about his famous character Tintin in Tibet. Even before that, the Americans had King Kong from the 1930s film in their minds, though of course, he was of a different order of magnitude. But gradually, the Yeti, or Abominable Snowman, became part of the Himalaya’s imaginarium.

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The final scene of the Tintin in Tibet comic book.

A six-month search

In 1954, a few years after Shipton’s discovery, oilman Tom Slick became obsessed with the Yeti after reading an article in the Daily Mail. Slick launched several search expeditions, including one that lasted six months. It had 500 porters and bloodhounds to sniff out the mysterious creature.

Even after the turn of the millennium, interest in the Yeti has not entirely waned. In 2008, Yo****eru Takashi led the Nippon Yeti project to the region around Dhaulagiri IV. They even obtained some photos of 45cm-long prints but failed to film any actual Yeti. Nevertheless, they returned convinced that the creature is real. “The footprints and the stories the locals tell make us sure that it is not imaginary,” Takashi said (http://www.bigfootencounters.com/articles/takahashi08.htm).

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The (slimmer) Yeti print from the 2008 Japanese expedition.

Climbers roaming the Himalaya of course enjoy listening to local stories and photographing the Yeti relics kept at several monasteries in the Khumbu — even though contemporary DNA tests have shown these relics belong to less legendary creatures.

As for bumping into a Yeti, no Westerner has had any luck, with one remarkable exception. In 1986, while exploring the head of Mekong River in Tibet, a Tyrolean climber saw a standing, ape-like animal at sunset.

“The creature towered menacingly, its face a gray shadow, its body a black outline,” the climber recalled. “Covered with hair, it stood upright on two short legs and had powerful arms.” He took no pictures, and the silhouette was not completely clear with the setting sun blindingly behind it.

Enter Reinhold Messner

The stunned climber was none other than world-famous climber Reinhold Messner. Afterward, Messner researched the matter thoroughly and gathered enough info for a book entitled, My Quest for Yeti: Confronting the Himalayas’ Deepest Mystery (https://www.amazon.com/dp/0312203942/?tag=20exweb-20).

Messner suggested that the creature might have been a Tibetan bear, which lives mostly alone and whose fur may vary in color. “However, for the Tibetan people, the Yeti is real and significant, as symbols and totems are,” Messner told this writer years ago, at the book’s launch in 2000.

Daniel C. Taylor reached a similar conclusion in his 2017 book, Yeti: The Ecology of a Mystery (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B079VWLP8X/?tag=20exweb-20). Taylor was interviewed about his obsession with the Yeti in National Geographic (https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/yeti-abominable-snowman-bear-daniel-taylor?loggedin=true), in which he attributes the prints to an Asian black bear.

The physical Yeti vs the symbolic Yeti

The physical Yeti may be a bear, but there is a second, symbolic Yeti in which humans muse about their relationship with the wilderness and the unseen.

Descriptions of the Yeti vary but mainly peg the creature as a five-foot-tall ape/humanoid creature that walks on two legs and emits a high-pitched sound.

However, with all these enthusiastic searches, and no conclusive evidence, the odds of the physical Yeti turning up are lengthening. Someone once wrote, half tongue-in-cheek, about one of the Yeti’s cousins in America’s Pacific Northwest: “The main problem associated with the phenomenon of the Sasquatch is proof of its physical existence.”

Anthropologists doubt that an ape (all of which are basically vegetarians) could survive in an environment so hostile to plant growth. The rare sightings have always centred around a single individual, never family groups.

And no one has happened to spot a Yeti while having a camera at hand. As myth debunker, John Russell Napier wrote back in 1972, “The sort of situation where human or mechanical faults, unaccountably, come between the photographer and world renown is another of those clichés so characteristic of life in the Goblin Universe. How many UFOs or Loch Ness Monsters would now be immortalized if the camera hadn’t been left in the car?”

In the age of drones and smartphones, the Yeti will have to be even more careful to keep its secret hidden and its legend alive.