The Yeti in popular Culture, - Worldwide

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The Yeti has appeared in films, and movies across time.

Most people know of the Yeti from childhood,. with documentries speculting on the creatures' existance to comedies, to horror movies mentioing the supposed monster.

Here is a list of some of the mentions the Yeti has had in popular culture.

The main item is a morality story, The Abominable Snowman (also known as the The Abominable Snowman of the Himalayas) a 1957 British horror film by Hammer Horror, directed by Val Guest and starring Forrest Tucker and Peter Cushing. The film is based on The Creature, a BBC Television play by writer Nigel Kneale, and follows the exploits of an English Botanist and American scientist as they search the Himalayas for the legendary Yeti. Kneale adapted his own television script into the film screenplay. Cushing had also starred in the original version.

Tom Friend, played by Tucker, persuades Rollason, played by Cushing to join him on a search for the creature, so Friend can make cash from the animal. Rollason discovers yetis are peaceful advanced hominids pushing humans to deaths via telepathy. Rollason survives while the others die, as the Yetis know he will persuade others to not go up to the mountain highs. The yetis believe humans will wipe themselves out as of their instincts as long as they keep this area to themelves, and then Yetis will be able to come down to the los of Earth later again. McNee is based on Eric Shipton.

I saw some of this movie when I was very young and it was the first movie I was scared by, infact I thought about the monsters when trying to get to sleep, scared of them. The inspiration was one scene where the monsters, huge fluffy things were I think in a hut surrounding a man who was terrified. The monsters were maybe puppets or costumes, the rest of the were film actors.

In Monsters, Inc.a 2001 movie the 2 main animated monsters, are banished to the Himlayas where they see the old friend of their's the Abominable Snowman, who seemingly may have also been banished from the place where the Monsters supposedly live and come from to scare humans, via special doorways from their city into human's bedroms. Cliff Clavin was the voice of the Yeti.

Yeti is also a England based Indie Band, that are stilling going in early 2007.

The Yeti is also a character in the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy roleplaying game,

The Yetis also appeared in episodes of Dr Who, in the first time in a edition called the Abominable Snowman, where they are actually Alien robots led by the Great Intelligence. It first aired in 1967. In it they were beseiging a 1920s Tibetan Buddhist Monastery, they were supposed to keep people away from certain places, then were a army for the Great Intelligence. The sound effect of a Yeti's roar is created by running the sound of a flushing toilet backwards. They were defeated the first time, and a second time in The Web of Fear.

And in a special long episode of 1983's Dr Who called The Five Doctors

They also appeared a Dr Who spin off movie also appearing in Tibet in 1996 called Downtime. Also appearing in and in a book to do with that.

And were in a 1995 book called Millennial Rites to do with Dr Who, and the 1994 book All-Consuming Fire. The GI as I shall label him is aid to be from a universe before this one, in some of the stuff. Though like many series this canonicity and stuff may be all mixed up as writers do not always know the full story of what they are writing about.

There is a airlines in Nepal called Yeti Airlines, set up in 1998

In the 1980s Policeman's Ball, a show done by much of Monty Python, Rowan Atkinson, and Peter Cook, Terry Jones called one of his female characters Yeti Goose Cretaure, John Clese said, he had a funny name and Terry Jones, said yes it is Simon,

There is a Yeti Mouse, which I mention in The Nature of the lands of the Yeti and the Yak, and the creatures which could be the most likely to have been mistaken for the Yeti,

And also a Kiwa hirsuta which is called the Yeti Crab as it's claws are so fluffy, it is 15 Cm long, and in the South Pacific.

There is a Web based game called Yetisports, where it has to smack a penguin, unfair in my view to do that

In the 1993 the UK children's comedy comic, Beano the Yeti moved to Britain, sick of cold weather at home. as The Yeti with Betty. It last was in in 1995, It was about the Yeti trying to get to grips with urban life to some extent.

A wrestler Ron Reis in the 1990s called himself the Yeti at times in the World Championship Wrestling

Also The Snowdon Mountain Railway has a diesel locomotive named "Yeti"

Yeti/Easton, a company makes bikes and bike accessories

The 2000s Comedy the Might Boosh, on BBC Three had a episode where they met the Yeti in The Call of the Yeti.

Tintin was in Tibet, in Tintin in Tibet, it portryaed the Yeti as a Sympathetic character

There is a Jamaican reggae band called Sherpa & Yetis

There is also a Band called the abominable snowmen based in Chicago Illinois

In popular culture Tibet, may have been with Afghanistan, and the other Yetilands the inspiration for the story The Man who would be king. Tibet has appeared in many pieces of Popular Culture there was the recent movies, Seven years in Tibet. Indiana Jones has a scene in Nepal, and many movies and films, have people high in the Himalayas in huts as a sign of being far away. A couple of KM above the land ofe most viewers with the thought of yaks and maybe yetis outside. Bhutan and Sikkim have been mentioned in some tourist tv programmes. Micheal Palin's Himalaya his tour along it was a success seeing the societies of the area and the incredible landscape. Tibet is seen as one of the most mystical lands in the world, with it's culture in such a remote way. Nepal is the next most famous of the areas. The Dalai Lama, is the most famous figure of the area. Some people have found the new democarcy movement in Nepal intresting.

A 2007 Cup a soup advert has a pair of arms which hug and remind some of the Yeti

Lola, a female psychiatrist, resurrects her lover after he has been attacked and bitten by a Yetti in Tibet. Subjecting him to bizarre mind control experiments. Fury Of The Wolfman - Killed by yeti, back as wolf! 1972

Disney Land in Florida in 2006 had a Everest themed fun ride, inckuding elements of the Yeti

Peg and the Yeti -- Illustrated by Barbara Reid; written by Kenneth Oppel was shortlisted for a award in 2005

Year With The Yeti by Gilderoy Lockhart
This is a fictional book written by the fictional character played by Kenneth Branagh in the Harry Potter movies, it was required reading for Potter.

Other top snow related stories, include Rupert the bear, and The Snowman by Raymond Briggs, which spawned the great song Walking in the Air, and also Narnia by CS Lewis has allot of snow

The Computer game Zoo Tycoon has a Yeti

Brian Blessed the actor who was in Flash Gordon and many films, once wrote a book called Search for the Yeti, mentioning times he was in the area, such as when doing a project about Mallory, one time he needed to dress up in a way that he joked made some people think he was the yeti

Two of the craters on Olympus Mons in Mars, have been provisionally assigned names by the IAU. These are the 15.6 km diameter Karzok crater, and the 10.4 km diameter Pangboche crater, which is named after a place in Nepal by Mount Everest, where a Yeti hand was supposed to be.