A Seminal Yeti Sightings Map
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The Seminal Historical Yeti Sightings Map
The
key to some of the Major Sightings (See The
History of the Myth, and Famous Sightings and Local
sightings of the Yeti for the sources) | |
The
Number | The facts about this sighting |
1 | In 1970 Don Whillans says he saw a creature while scaling Annapurna. While scouting for a campsite, Whillans heard some odd cries. |
2 | In 1958 Tibetan villagers of Tharbaleh, not far from the Rongbuk glacier, claim they saw a drowned Yeti, |
3 | In 1921, as Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Howard-Bury whilst crossing the "Lhakpa-la" at 21,000 feet where, found footprints in the snow. Howard-Bury stated that these tracks "were probably caused by a large 'loping' grey wolf, which in the soft snow formed double tracks rather like a those of a barefooted man". Locals said however the tracks must be that of "The Wild Man of the Snows", to which they gave the name "metoh-kangmi". "Metoh" translates as "man bear" and "Kang-mi" translates as "snowman". Among other names this saw Mr. Henry Newman, a journalist interprete this as the name the Abominable Snowman. |
4 | While attempting to scale Mount Everest in 1951, Eric Shipton took photographs of a number of large prints in the snow, at about 6,000 m (19,685 ft) above sea level. These photos have been subject to intense study and debate. Some argue they are the best evidence of Yeti's reality, others say the prints are from a known piece of Himalayan wildlife, distorted and enlarged by the melting snow. In 1953, Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay reported seeing large footprints while scaling Mount Everest. Hillary would later discount Yeti reports as unreliable. |
5 | 1998 US climber, Craig Calonica said he had seen two yetis going down the Chinese side of Everest |
6 | 1978 Miller and Cacciolfi claimed they received what could be Yeti chest hairs off a elderly lady of Khumjung village, Nepal, just to the South West of Mount Everest. Her son had been taking some potatoes on a trail that year, & was supposedly attacked by one Yeti. It was male and almost seven feet high, and coloured by dark & reddish hair. The man used his hoe to attack the Yeti striking the chest so it fled to a higher mountain area. His wounds were so serious he died. They obtained these hairs long, black, and coarse as of the February and March, 1986, the New World Explorers Society (NWES), that looked at this area. |
7 | Thyangboche Monastery, where Sherpa Tenzing claims to have seen a Yeti. This monastery has old paintings which are of significance that are said to be of the Yeti. |
8 | Pangboche Monastery, just to the South of Everest. Which is where there are supposed parts of a Yeti. Also Lama Sangwa Dorje who was here, set up a monastery here, he claims he was helped in meditation by a Yeti. |
9 | In 1974 it was reported, that a 19 year old Sherpa yak herder Lhakpa Domani was assaulted by a 4 foot tall yeti. Which killed 5 of her yaks by twisting their horns. Nepali police it is claimed, though I am not sure, confirmed the act, and a photographer recorded footprints. Some sources also claim her brother was knocked out. This was in the northern village of Machermo. |
10 | In 1925, N.A. Tombazi, a photographer and member of the Royal Geographical Society, saw a creature at about 15,000 ft near Zemu Glacier. Tombazi later wrote that he observed the creature from about 200 or 300 yards, for about one 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 what they took to be 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.... The prints were undoubtedly those of a biped." |
11 | 1948 A uranium prospector from Norway called Jan Frostis said he was attacked by 2 yetis when in Zemu Gap in Sikkim. His shoulder was very badly damaged and he needed medical help. |
12 | In 1914 A British forestry officer in Sikkim, J R P Gent, claimed to have identified large foot prints of a surely huge and a amazing creature. Some sources say he caught a glimpse, and said it was yellow-brown haired. He said measurements of the footprints showed it with 2 feet long strides. With toe marks going backwards as of walking on knees up hills. |
13 | 1889 Major L A Waddell of the British Army, saw large footprints in the snow in North East Sikkim. |
14 | 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 unusal through a DNA tests and it was not found what it was. |
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| 1971 Yoshiteru Takahashi, a member of a Japanese expedition claim a member saw on Dhaulagiri, a gorilla 15 metres away from him for 40 seconds. Claiming it was 150 CM tall. He says his camera failed, so he could not take a picture. |
16 | Medog County in Tibet, where there was a siting. |
