More Musings on the Yeti does he exist

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The final proof for the Yeti existing could be this. Before the era of climbers specialising and going all the way up Everest, Sherpas and Tibetans never sqaw climbing Everest as important. Some have even claimed the story of the yeti is like those stories which are made about forests to scare away people, like were made in some Native American tribes of the North East USA. The fact is the Yetis also in myths came down from the mountains and to pasture. So the myth is not really just to scare people from mountains and the Yeti just could exist. So we are saying that traditionally as Sherpas had no need to go up there. It is said that the highest a Yak has ever gone naturally is 6100 metres, so over 2700 metres below the highest mountain of the world. It can be seen from the Everest story that most Sherpa areas are very much below that height. The highest settlement in Tibet is Wenzhuan at 5100 Metres high, it is apparently a hamlet and was built by the Chinese as late as 1955 on a road they built between Qinghai and Tibet. which is way to the north of the Himalayas. So that means the Tibetan side of the Himalayas has nowhere above that height. Dolpa is the highest big village in Nepal at 4310 Metres high, it is the centre of a area the size 7300 Square Km, which makes it the size of 5 Londons, or Anglesey's or Isle of Skye's, but has only 29000 people. Some call a hut in Bolivia at 5895 Metres high the highest hut in the world. Traditionally in the Himalayas huts did not go this high. So this leaves a huge area which had no human occupation and were never visited in Sherpa times before climbing. This is the same for the rest of the world, indeed Ben Nevis the highest mountain in Britain was never climbed till 1771 and is a far lesser 1344 Metres high. With Ben Macdui the second highest not till 1847. Snowdon was not climbed till the 17th Century. Botanists were among the first just to record nature up here. So tradtionally people di go all the way up. The Himalayas has 14 peaks over 8000 metres, with Everest. So some so high they are almost so far above 8000 metres that they are more above that than the height of many nation's highest mountains. 40 Peaks are higher than 7000 metres. It has 200 peaks above 6000 metres in height. The Himalayas means abode of snow. There are a massive 1310 peaks above 5000 metres. The fanous climb to Everest will reveal how barren of hman contact the higher Himalayas were, Even Kumjing Village a high Sherpa village in Nepal is only 3514 metres above sea level. Even Everest Base camp is only 5400 Metres high. Even the 2 monasteries Pangboche and Thyangboche / Tengboche are only 3958 and 3867 metres above sea level, next on the route towards Everest was Dingboche only 4350 metres high. There are 3 more villages on the Everest trek till you reach the highest being Gorak Shep, which is just hamlets 5100 metres high, and it only partly survives via tourism. So loads of the Himalayas is empty of humans. That means the Yeti could live in a huge area. those 100s of peaks in the Yeti area could be lived in and the other forests which cover so much of Bhutan Sikkim, and the Himalayas.

So Sikkim, and Everest are the main sitings for teh Yeti so maybe they live in forests between there and in Tibet using the height of the Everest and Mount Kanchenjunga, to have their niche which maybe developed 200,000 years ago as giant orangutans, where their abilities are beaten most of the time, by bears and humans and other animals lower, down, but up at the top, reaches maybe they have developed a niche other animals can not cope with. So maybe the higsh of the Himalayas are like a island in a continent in the air. Just like how many small isles develop amazing cultures like Easter Island, or St Kilda, or amazing fauna, like Homo Floresiensis, on Flores, or giant moa on New Zealand, or mini mammoths on some islands like Malta, well the extreme highs of the Himalayas maybe cover a area larger than Easter Island, and when added to the forests which they apparently inhabit, well maybe there are ones bears go to less often as they can not cope with less food, or the cold as much, while the Himalayas a large area which they spread out to a bit more often where maybe comparable to a New Zealand island can then get them a few more times too.

So lets guess the yeti has 100 people within it. It lives in the highest forests and trapses around up the hills, and has this niche where other animals were unable to thrive in, saw the Yeti thrive hear and use at as a base to loop around to more areas like more of Sikkim and nepal and even to Bhutan's forests Learning to hide from people and such.

When Hilary went to Everest in 1951 he saw great forests some tall trees at 13000 feet, or 3900 metres, and massive areas of azaleas & junipe to 16,000 feet or 4900 metres. Apparently since then some deforesting has occurred. For instance a grass airfield at 2,850 meters is now paved. This shows even as low as that height it is still highlands though, well above the height of many land's highest mountains. Some say though that the forests despite tourist needs for wood in fires to housing are still quite good. Some say the area has reached saturation point in terms of tourism though.

Even if the Yeti does not exist, it does not matter if people the Himalayas talk about it, as it adds to tourism. It makes their areas more interesting adding a good interesting myth, to the area adding to the enjoyment of people who visit. Maybe a Yeti experience could be created, not a theme park which could be used there. Visiting areas as if the Yeti does exist, while experiencing the culture and stories of up in the Himalayas, and the real nature. Though it would be wrong to con people by saying you believed it exists when you do not. A Yeti theme tour. So as long as it is not lying and people know what you are about and know what is happening explicity so then that is interesting.

Anyway the yeti may exist anyway.

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