The Yeti could exist and does, so here is the proof. The main case for saying the yeti exists is that it is is so plentiful in local legends, and is told of in many myths and legends across Tibetan and Nepali folklore.

Added to this the creature is talked of in countless sightings by many people. Of which many are people with big reputations to keep, who were still willing to harm these by telling a wider world that they had seen these creatures, even when there is much skepticism world-wide about a belief in it. The legends of the people of Nepal, Sikkim, Bhutan and Tibet talk allot about this species. So how you may say could the Yeti have lasted in this land without being undeniably confirmed as existing by almost a decade into the 21st Century, even past early 2007 when this page was written.

The answer to that is the Yeti has been seen many times, it is just that the evidence had not been believed, as of it being such a extraordinary creature.

So here is the evidence,

Many many local people have said they believe in the Yeti and have seen it. The belief in the existence of the Yeti is so strong that it is a integral part of the folklore of the lands, just like how local wildlife across the world is always part of the local folklore. From the eagle and Stags in the Highlands, to buffalo in Native American cultures, to elephants in India. This in itself is important, as it shows creatures mentioned in folklore are often real, so so could the Yeti be. As to is the statement said in our page Local sightings of the Yeti, that a huge number of Sherpa people have seen the Yeti.

Then there is this list, of just some of the famous westerners who have claimed to have sighted at some time, or some kind of evidence on the Yeti.

I have put these in bold, you can read the rest of the main article, below this.

Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Howard-Bury in the 1920s, during the mission that saw the coining of the term abominable snowman, reported seeing footprints in the snow that sherpas said were those of the Yeti. (It has to be said he did not give this the benefit of his total agreement - he thought could be that of a grey wolf)

N.A. Tombazi (a famous 1920s photographer) claims to have seen the outline of the creature. Though in later days he liked to claim that it was possibly Buddhist priests on their way somewhere unconnected with the locals.

Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay saw footprints of a unknown animal when scaling Everest in the 1950s (Hilary it has to be said, does not give much credence to reports of the Yeti)

During the Daily Mail Snowman Expedition of 1954, symbolic paintings of the Yeti at Thyangboche Gompa were located again, and there were many large footprints which could not be identified. (Though the flattened footprint-like indentations were attributed to erosion and subsequent widening of the original footprint by wind and particle action by some)

A 1957 a attempt to find the Yeti by a American oil tycoon, located just some faeces said by locals to be from the yeti, that had in it a parasite that was unable to be classified, seeing some in the search claim this indicated a new species for this new parasite. As they claimed as parasites were normally particular to certain species, that this meant it was of a new species.

Apparently in 1959 it is claimed a man called Peter Byrne who was part of the oil tycoon, Slick's expedition, decided, as the Monastery at first refused to allow the scalp to be tested, to take away parts of the supposed Yeti relic, swapping them for some human bone.

The Pangboche hand parts from Byrne a hand from a monastery in Nepal, possibly from a Abominable Snowman, have been investigated at least 2 times. The first by London University primatologist W. C. Osman Hill, who claimed it was possibly of a Neanderthal.

Another expert, a American anthropologist named George Agogino claimed it was possibly near human, but not human, as of what he saw from tissue remains. The monastery claimed these relics were very old, over 100 years old.

Don Whillans (A famous climber of the 1970s) claimed he saw a figure, and heard odd calls, which sherpas told him were the Yeti. Claiming he saw the yeti walking about, far away for 20 minutes.

1986, Anthony B. Wooldridge while running through the Himalayas of northernmost India went along a a forested snowy slope by Hemkund, he saw tracks, taking photos of them, they resembled the 1951 Shipton photographs. He then claims when going along, he saw them lead to a shrub, which he says had by it a 6 foot tall shape, getting 150 metres away. He claimed the head was large and almost square,

In 1986, mountaineer Reinhold Messner claims to have met face to face with a Yeti, Which he claims is the Himalayan Brown Bear. He says in his book My Quest for Yeti: Confronting the Himalayas' Deepest Mystery "the creature towered menacingly, its face a gray shadow, its body a black outline. Covered with hair, it stood upright on two short legs and had powerful arms." It was later sighting of the brown bear which made him feel it could be this sort of thing.

1991 Professor Arkady Tishkov Claims to have seen something, which others would say may possibly be a Yeti while by Mt. Xixiabangma on the Nepali Chinese border. They saw what looked like a human like animal sitting by a boulder. It had the cone head, had no seeable neck, and was dark brown.

In 2001 Britain's Channel 4 with a British team, in a forest in Eastern Bhutan found some hair. They put the hair, which looked unusual through a DNA tests and it was not found what it was.

This is a formidable amount of evidence.

Some say these pieces are not at all conclusive, or persuasive, but lets face it they can actually be described as pretty strong indications of the yeti existing. There are relics, body parts, eye witness accounts, and evidence from seriously dispassionate observers who have seen traces of what could be a Yeti, and then give the information out. The observers who say they do not believe it was the Yeti show that it is not the case that it is just people desperately wanting to believe in the Yeti, or people who want to say they have seen the Yeti who have seen signs of the Yeti being around. If even the most skeptical observers have seen traces of what could be the Yeti and are willing to say so, that is some big kind of persuasion towards the possibility of the Yeti existing, being true. Infact they only stop saying it could be the Yeti when their memory ages a bit, and can be changed from what actually the creature looked like. The bias seems to be for people to shift to the less embaressing "I did not see the Yeti", rather than to that, which means possibly more people have seen the Yeti, and any mention of seeing the Yeti is a pretty strong evidence of something, Yeti-like being seen and existing.

You may also say that surely more evidence than this would have been located by now. Surely by now somebody would have taken a pretty decent photograph of the yeti. Surely by now somebody in this era when more people climb Everest than ever before, there would have been more occasions of people seeing the animal. Surely maybe even a case of a dead body of a yeti would have been found, maybe by it being killed in an altercation with climbers, or locals, or by it just dying a natural death. Plus, surely the many searches of the areas of the Yeti would have found something like a Yeti by now.

Yes yes, these are good points, but lets look at it another way. The amount of evidence is actually potentially huge. Locals believe it exists, people from the Medieval era to now, have believed in such a creature, indeed a Chinese anatomy dictionary of the 18thC and one of the 19thC mentioned a wildman, as a species, like a gorilla, or a orangutan, or a human-like thing, existing in the Tibetan areas, as if he was fauna, like yaks or local birdlife as said in The History of the Myth, and Famous Sightings. So locals have believed in the creature for a long time, and we have potentially sensational evidence, that Byrne's Yeti hand is said by some to be non human, but near human, a sensational piece, that is almost as devastating a piece of proof of the Yeti existing as any evidence people would find of anything. Do you know that the Giant squid recently photographed in the Pacific, well one of the pieces of evidence that said it existed beforehand was that there were marks from it on sperm whales. The Yeti hand evidence is as strong a evidence as that.

So how can you say this amounts to nothing, it amounts to allot.

And to the statement this is not much, well come on this is allot. Surely the fact is the area we are talking about the Himalayas, is a huge area of the world, and a remote area, not really visited all that often.

If local people say they have seen a yeti the belief of experts seems to be, to treat their view as if they claim they have been attacked by aliens. Essentially to just not believe them. Some like to say that they have confused the creature with bears, just like how the myth of Mok'ele-mbembe, seems to have been discredited. You know that belief that a Pygmy tribe in Africa in the forests had a myth about a dinosaur. But then when this remote community was shown picturesof rhinos and elephants, some of the members of the community, said yes that is it. Still some said though no it was not. Well the view the yeti is a bear has now simply been discredited as local voices have said how no it is not a bear, that it is a ape like genus, so often, that they no the difference and at times volunteer in their reports that it does not look like like a Langur Monkey or bear. So lets say that thousands of locals have said the Yeti exists, and people would believe their stories if they said they saw a bear like creature so why not a bear.

On top of the decent evidence of the Yeti existing, there is the potential for it to exist. Yes potential, could be taken to say well anything could exist then, but the potential tied in with the above stated evidence seems to point us towards corroboration, and in the end if you get allot, and some very good piece of evidence like the hand, you can go a long way with that. So just like that Ancient Greek, Eratosthenes of Cyrene who lived from 276 BC - 194 BC, who calculated the circumference of the Earth from work on evidence, from using calculations and evidence when he had never left that far from the small Greek portions of the world, you can use these facts and calculations to come up with the truth again.

So anyhow Tibet itself is a land, for instance around 60 times the size of the Highland Region of Scotland, Britain's least densely populated area, and the largest county in Britain, with Tibet having a population around 5 times less per square Km than even the Highlands. One person who lives in the Highlands told me, that that does not sound that remote, as the Highlands is a area that has has all it's animals found and located to such a level, that we can even estimate how many wildcats there are, the small domesticated cat sized creature. But a other fellow told me, that he thought this made Tibet sound very remote. As he told how, some parts of the Highlands, like the most remote Glens, have no people living in them, and how some have rarely see people, for quite some periods. He told how there are lochs good for fishing, that have no roads leading to them. That the Highlands has 8 people per KM, and most are in villages and towns, and a city, so that many areas have far lower density than that, even many Km per person. Plus how there are forests that are large and lochs and mountain area. The Highlands is as large as Wales, and larger than Belgium it is not small, it hides within it species that have died out in the far more populous rest of Britain. Then you have to remember this, that Tibet then would have some areas where more of it's people are and some where few are. Then you remember that Britain with a population of density of 243 people per KM, may according to some people have big cats from Cornwall to the top of the Highlands according to many individuals. With the fact that even some big cat experts believe it would be possible for a leopard or puma, to hide in a many many times more densely populated and traveled across, and smaller land like Britain, than in Tibet and the Himalayan area, then this shows if thats possible, then why not the Yeti, when the evidence for the Yeti existing is strong and more people have seen it.

Then you have Nepal, a land of very high mountains, where the myth of the yeti is constant in Sherpa areas. Surely the fact is that such a huge area could hide a Yeti. Think of it this way if the Yeti exists and lives mainly in the high snow covered mountains of the Himalayas, from west to east. Then how many people are there to see it. Well there are Sherpas and some other tribes who the western media will not believe. Then after them hardly anybody is there, so how many other people can get data on the Yeti, in a area which is probably even more remote and unpeopled than even Tibet. (Not Nepal itself, which is not that much less densely populated than Britain, but the Himalayas) Only 2200 people have ever climbed Mount Everest, one of the hotspots for foreigners up here, so only 2200 have been right to the top, and then over a 50 year period, even the top bit the bit where more of them go to out of Everest, only sees one person every 8 days. With that being with how most actually go in 2s or more, so it is every 16 days, and as maybe the Yeti would keep away from noisy bunches of 2 people or more, and not be going along their climbing roots anyhow. Then considering the climbs are sometimes via different routes that means it could be once every few weeks, or months that each normal path for a human is reached. With the Yetis maybe only crossing them rarely too. Yes you can say more people than just those who climb to the top go on missions, but still that leaves huge areas of this 29000 feet high mountain which seldom see anybody. Some surely never see people other than every few years as they are not on the paths. With how yetis are not trying to climb Everest so may not even have to pass these paths on their way to anywhere that much. So then there we have it, if a yeti as the climbers, and sherpas indicate is the case lived on Everest, he would find it difficult to be seen more than a few times a year. With him or the many yetis maybe not even going to Everest all that often, so that may be a exaggeration and maybe it is true that they keep away from humans if they can, so as more nimble creatures than people on mountains they could easily avoid humans. As also the yeti would cover this area by his walking, and hunting, and eating of bushes, he would not need to go where people are that much. Also sources indicate a yeti would live as a solitary animal, maybe like tigers do today, sometimes meeting up with a female partner and causing the population to carry on surviving. Some say they live in families, but that may be so or not who knows.

So you may say, well a few times a year who should be seen by westerners, as well as the many times as a year reported by Sherpas, he is not seen that often. Well the answer to that is he lives like a tiger, and that this species maybe of some 100s of breeding pairs lives across the Himalayas, in the remote areas. Every so often seen by locals and far more infrequently by the less often actually there, outsiders, and when by locals, some see them as semi religious figures, and do not want to do much harm, to them.

Added to this my calculation could say the Yeti could only be seen by humans on Everest every few decades, as of hiding and rarity there. Maybe Sherpas only see them as there are seasons of desperation for food, so they go to the most remote areas whic can not report them much and are nearer their hyper remote bases.

So the idea would be that as 100s of creatures living remotely up here, and surviving, each has a area to himself. The theory would be that the Yeti that lives on Everest also lives on some areas far away from here, using the vast rugged, deep and high mountains, of this landscape to subsist. Every so often reaching down to lower areas where Sherpas and Tibetans live, and being sighted. Everest itself is a far more commonly visited site than many other areas around here. The third highest mountain within the areas of the Yeti, Lhotse, the 4th highest mountain on Earth, at 27,939 feet, or 8516 metres, has only been climbed 243 times, the 2nd highest Kangchenjunga, 185. Some of the 10 highest mountains have been climbed barely 130 times. But then you look at the facts, also, when you are climbing a mountain like this, are you likely to be able to see that far. If the Yeti is wandering daintily along a ledge above you would you know. If he is 200 metres away eating a bush, are you likely to be looking up there, or focussing on your mission. If you are a climber you are likely to be in your tent or focussing. So when you think of it this way the Yeti could have been very near many climbers and not be seen. The snow too and weather could also hide the creature. Snowstorms, and the nights dark too, as many say the creatures could be nocturnal.

So that is that then just because the yeti is there it does not have to be seen all that regularly by westerners, and the amount of times it has been seen is a good total. Especially when added up with the evidence of sightings from western observers too. Lets think about the evidence, we can claim if he exists there are Abominable Snowmen and Abominable Snowwomen, or snowladies, and that they live up there in the highs a offspring of Homo Erectus, or maybe Gigantopithicus, eating bushes, and yaks, and every so often us people.

Added to this, the extra shuv could be, that cases of them, usually only involve one person, seeing them. Some may say well this is just as they know if there were 2 then the other person, who did not make up the story, may not go along with the made up story. The answer to that could be, that yetis have been as the Chinese dictionary and Tibetan myths claim been living up there for 1000s of years, surely they would have learned a important survival trick, to keep away from large groups of humans. Surely the case seems to be that they were pushed into the highs, where people could not survive until more recently. That in all other areas, Yeti style species have become extinct (With the possible exceptions of Bigfoot and almas). Look at Madagascar where a gorilla sized lemur was pushed to extinction by the usually lowland dwelling Human race, easily taking their lands, and subsistence sources. Look at Africa here the gorilla is now only around in small patches of the more remote forested Highlands of Africa, where people found it more difficult to subsist rather than just moving to other lowland, or non forested areas of the giant African continent. While Everest and the Himalayas would have seen people struggle to cope up here, needing a massive Innuit style leap in technology and understanding to survive up here, Innuit in as how they are quite recent to that area of the world compared with habitation of the rest of the Americas. So people would have taken longer to master up here, and still today have not mastered the very highs for their economic means other than in tourism. So I am saying maybe 100,000 years ago, Humans helped push those giant 10 foot tall Orangutans, the Gigantopithicus to extinction, you know the ones, that existed in Southern China, and whose huge teeth found in caves are still sold in Chinese markets. But that maybe by 70,000 years ago, only their giant orangutan or a branch of Homo Erectus survived. Both Erectus, and Orangutans are quite clever for animals, so maybe they would have evolved to a level of intelligence, and would have known not to come up to large groups of people, and only to go up to individuals in attacks. Added to this, animals, are often more observant than people, and maybe living up in the snow, they would not be afraid of humans, but be wary keeping away from them, and knowing they are there before we know the yeti is there. The evidence is that the yeti lives at 14000 feet compared with Tibet's, average elevation of 19000 feet. Also maybe the Abominable Snowman is a special Snow version of the 10 foot tall Orangutan and the other Orangutans pushed it to the mountains, so that it was not just people, but that made it a creature specialised to the Himalayan highs. With just like how grass that grows in some quarries looses out similar grass in fields close by but beats other grass in the quarry as it is suited to the mineral quantities there, then maybe the Yeti - Orangutan survived up here better and lasted longer as people took longer to get up here, and the Yeti was suited to not going near normal giant orangutans or people, and is suited to surviving here then.

So it is very possible the Yeti could exist without being seen much. The last item for me to confirm this, is what was said in the Tombazi article, the locals said nobody had gone to where he saw the Yeti for the whole of that year. Meaning that there are patches of the Yetilands never visited by local people that much,, never mind the far rarer climbers and tourists. Maybe there are areas then where the Yeti stays then it just rare times that it runs out of it's safe homeland somewhere in the high forests and bare rock of the higher Himalayas to reach down to Sherpa areas. It took longer for people to settle the higher Himalayas than many other areas of the world, so there are still areas untouched much by people, especially very high remote areas which serve them little.

Also we can all agree maybe some yeti reports are made up, such as the one where a man is nursed to health by one. But this could still mean the Yeti could still be true. As look at times when people are reported missing, the fact is that some people report them somewhere 100s of miles apart from other reports. With some reports true, some made up by fantasists, and some just being people thinking somebody looks like a missing person, it could be the same here.

Most researchers say the Yeti in all probability lives in temperate, fertile valleys of the Himalayas, but I say why are all the sightings in the snow, I say they are likely to live just as much in both. Also the Himalayas is 2,400 kilometres long, and 200 to 400 kilometres wide. So that could fit enough land in for them. Though I do read that Tibetans in the South East of their province have seen the Yeti supposedly. I read that a lady from Lhasa, originally from the South East had seen a yeti in Virgin Forest, so meaning some extra land added to the Mountains.

You may say, well surely we would have seen one of their dead bodies by now. The answer to that would be that maybe it is not that common to see large dead animals killed by nature, lying around the place. If you type in dead bear on the Internet the only ones people see are ones killed by people or cars. Maybe dead yetis would become degraded quickly and be taken in the inhospitable environment for other animals to eat. Maybe there is only a population of 100s. Experts claim there were only 1000s maybe under 10,000 Neanderthals, and it would be possible it would be the same for Yetis. That was in the whole of Europe, so the smaller area Himalayas could fit in less, and so there would not be many dead bodies anyway. Species can still survive even on low numbers if they have a good niche I feel.

You may say well what about other remains, the answer to that would be well maybe these teeth sold in markets sometimes are part of their remains, maybe their remains are gobbled up by vultures, or separated apart by them, just like the local Tibetan funerary practice where vultures are given the remains of people. Maybe the bones are scattered by the vultures if they eat the Yeti remains. It took decades to find Mallery's remains despite him being wrapped up well, and more easy to find. Also Messner claims he bought a Yeti skeleton off nomads on the Plain of Ladakh between India and Pakistan in 1996, though this has not seen big tests.

So the conclusion of many people, is that if the Yeti exists he can be explained away as the Langur Monkey in some cases, where he is a small creature. Also as a Neanderthal in some cases, as a bear in some, and as a relative of the Gigantopithicus in some cases.

So does the writer of this article, accept the snowman as as true. He believes that the most likely outcome would be that the Yeti is a Gigantopithicus. The reason is that a Neanderthal would not resemble a hairy creature, it would be more likely to resemble a person, indeed experts have felt they would be almost indistinguishable from a person, if in a suit for almost a century, so it would not look at all like descriptions of the Yeti. The Gigantopithicus is also far closer in archelogical records, in terms of time, and geographt o the area than any other contender, as gorillas are to far away and no other species would be that similar to the Yeti.

The evidence is there, all you have to do is believe. We all found it easy to believe reports by Hilary that the hand of the Yeti in the monastery was fake, but not that similar ones were true. Also look how we may claim the people who sight Yeti's are just trying to get attention, but see how almost all, actually seem embarrassed about it, the Greek photographer, actually who saw it in the 1920s, later claimed it was maybe a bear or a Buddhist monk who he saw. To have said it was a bear or a Buddhist Monk, well what would be a cross between them, a Yeti, ho ho ho. It is like how people do not report crimes, when they were doing something embarrassing. People do not like reporting the fact they have seen the creature or they may be seen as wild eyed wildmen just as much as the Yeti. The only missing verification proving Yetis existence is a good photograph. But there are not that many people there. Local people even in a era when they are wealthier are not going to spend their money on cameras that much. So will not take many photos of him. Added to this, climbers may often be tourists but they are not going to have the cameras ready all the time. Climbing is a hard business and having a camera at hand everywhere would be dangerously unfocussed for some at times. With also the fact that the Yeti could have learned to keep away from people. The only other lack of evidence, is how there are so few remains. These remains though could just be quickly eaten, by the wildlife Very few people ever go to some areas. Look at Everest it has only been climbed 100s of times, but there are other areas where nobody goes to for weeks, or at all, and surely that would be enough time, for vultures up high to spy meat and eat, and for other animals, to turn the bodies into bones indistinguishable from other species.

So the conclusion is that the Yeti lives in the Himalayas, Nepal, Bhutan, and parts of Tibet and Sikkim, it may live in other areas. Those areas may have had the creature seen by locals, but may receive less tourism, and investigation as they do not have Everest to attract tourists and such. The creature could extend to the Pamirs, Northern Tibet West Sichuan and even Burma and Assam and North Western provinces of Pakistan and India. The evidence is there, the locals believe, and rare explorers have seen signs of it. There are finds which could be the creature from footprints (indicating only rare amounts of the creature in the Himalayas but enough to be seen) and the more recent we get, the more more and more specialised kinds of scientists in a bigger and bigger world of academia, are able to get into finding that hair, is a remains, never mind the eaten quickly bodies. Reports from some areas are probably just of the copycat variety. It could be a species that sees some habitation in Burma too the Pamirs too, and every so often Mongolia, and so is in each area rarely, but I feel the likeliest case is that it is a Himalayan creature.

So the Yeti is true, all you need is to agree.

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