Recently they found the supposed foot print of a Yeti.
Footprints seen around Mt.Everest stoke Yeti mystery
By Gopal Sharma
KATHMANDU (Reuters) - A U.S.-based television channel investigating the
existence of the legendary Yeti in Nepal has found
footprints similar to those said to be that of the abominable snowman, the
company said on Friday.
A team of nine producers from Destination Truth, armed with infrared cameras,
spent a week in the icy Khumbu region where Mount
Everest is located and found the footprints on the bank of Manju river at
a height of 2,850 metres (9,350 feet).
One of the three footprints discovered on Wednesday is about one foot long,
or is of similar size and appearance as shown in sketches of the mystical
ape-like creature believed to live in snowy caves, the TV company said.
"It is very very similar," Josh Gates, host of the weekly travel adventure
television series, told Reuters in Kathmandu after
returning from the mountain.
"I don't believe it to be (that of) a bear. It is something of a mystery for
us," said Gates, 30, an archaeologist by training.
Tales by sherpa porters and guides about the wild and hairy creatures lurking
in the Himalayas have seized the imagination of foreign mountain climbers going
to Mount Everest since the 1920s.
Several teams have searched for it and some have even claimed to have
discovered footprints.
But no one has actually seen the creature nor has it been scientifically
established that the Yeti exists.
Gates said the footprints on lumps of sandy soil, which would be sent to
experts in the United States for analysis, were "relatively fresh left some 24
hours before we found them".
"This print is so pristine, so good that I am very intrigued by this," Gates,
flanked by his team members, said adding the findings would prompt more
investigation into the Yeti.
Destination Truth chronicles some of the world's notorious crypto-zoological
creatures and unexplained phenomena.
Some local sherpas believe that the Himalayas are abodes of strange creatures
and consider the Yeti as a protector while others say it is a destroyer.
"There is a kind of mysterious creature that lives in the Himalayas," said
Ang Tshering Sherpa, chief of Nepal Mountaineering Association in Kathmandu, who
hails from the Khumbhu region were Mount Everest is located.
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Edited by Tyranos - 03-Dec-2007 at 17:08