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Footprints of Elusive Snowman called Yeti
By KTM Metro Reporter in Kathmandu
The team of explorers sent by the U.S.-based television channel called Destination Truth for investigating the existence of the legendary snowman called Yeti in Nepal has found its footprints on the bank of Manju River at a height of 2,850 meters (9,350 feet) near the Everest base camp, Josh Gates the team leader of the expedition told the reporters on Friday, November 30, 2007. "We are happy to say that we have found footprints of Yeti. And the snowman is no more a legend for us now," Josh Gates said. A team of nine people from Destination Truth equipped with infrared cameras spent a week in the Khumbu region of Nepal.
It was Tul Bahadur Rai, representative of Equator Expedition Nepal and a liaison officer of the American team spotted the footmarks on the banks of the river. “We found those prints not long after it was made," said Rai. "It was the night of November 28. I cried in excitement when I saw the footprints. I called all the members and they took photographs and also made a cast of the footprint, after they were convinced that it indeed was a footprint," he told the reporter of “The Himalayan Times.”
An excited Mr. Gates described the main footprint as anthropomorphic, meaning it had human characteristics. He said he did not believe the prints were man-made or that they came from a known animal such as a bear. But he also said he was not sure he believed in the Yeti, and did not know what to make of it. (BBC NEWS Dec 01, 2007)
This is not the first time that footprints of Yeti were seen. In 1925 a Greek photographer, NA Tombazi, claimed that he had spotted an ape-like creature walking in the valley near Mt. Everest. Another noted explorer and the father of Tenzing Norgay Sherpa claimed to have seen the footprints of Yeti. Similarly, British mountaineers Eric Shipton and Michael Ward found the yeti footprints in 1951 near the border area. Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay found footprints on the way up to the top of Mt. Everest in1953. (Chinanews.cn)
