Yeti, The Abominable Snowman, Spotted at Solang Valley, Himachal Pradesh
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4 February, 2010: A local legend is getting new life. In the last two
weeks, there were three separate Yeti (the Abominable Snowman)
sighting in.Solang Valley, Himachal Pradesh, India The final sighting
included a photo that some say is the mysterious creature itself.
Talk to people around Solang Valley and you will hear hundreds of
stories. But last week, the legend himself, the Yeti, was supposedly
spotted in those very mountains.
They have grown up on these woods and know them well. But last week, a
13-year-old girl and her 12-year-old brother came across something
strange right in the valley was a creature she'd never seen before.
But the claims of the kids were passed off as a child's imagination.
That changed just days later when a woman in her fifties had to be
taken to a hospital. She reported seeing a big hairy creature in her
backyard and had hysterics.
It's all over Solang Valley and on everyone's mind; what was seen out
here? Some people say it is the Yeti. Others aren't believers yet.
Local hotel owners have set up game cameras hoping to catch a glimpse.
The first reliable report of the Yeti appeared in 1925 when a Greek
photographer, N. A. Tombazi, working as a member of a British
geological expedition in the Himalayas, was shown a creature moving in
the distance across some lower slopes. The creature was almost a
thousand feet away in an area with an altitude of around 15,000 feet.
"Unquestionably, the figure in outline was exactly like a human being,
walking upright and stopping occasionally to uproot or pull at some
dwarf rhododendron bushes," said Tombazi, "It showed up dark against
the snow and, as far as I could make out wore no clothes."
The creature disappeared before Tombazi could take a photograph and
was not seen again. The group was descending, though, and the
photographer went out of his way to see the ground were he had spotted
the creature. Tombazi found footprints in the snow.
"They were similar in shape to those of a man, but only six to seven
inches long by four inches wide at the broadest part of the foot. The
marks of five distinct toes and the instep were perfectly clear, but
the trace of the heel was indistinct..."
There were 15 prints to be found. Each was one and one half to two
feet apart. Then Tombazi lost the trail in thick brush. When the
locals were asked to name the beast he'd seen they told him it was a
"Kanchenjunga demon." Tombazi didn't think he'd seen a demon, but he
couldn't figure out what the creature was either. Perhaps he'd seen a
wandering Buddhist or Hindu ascetic or hermit. As the years went by
though and other Yeti stories surfaced, Tombazi began to wonder if
he'd seen one too.
Yeti reports usually come in the form of tracks found, pelts offered,
shapes seen at a distance, or rarely, actual face-to-face encounters
with the creatures. Face to face encounters never come with
researchers looking for the Yeti, but with locals who stumble into the
creature during their daily lives.
Some of the best tracks ever seen were found and photographed by
British mountaineers Eric Shipton and Micheal Ward in 1951. They found
them on the southwestern slopes of the Menlung Glacier, which lies
between Tibet and Nepal, at an altitude of 20,000 feet. Each print was
thirteen inches wide and some eighteen inches long. The tracks seemed
fresh and Shipton and Ward followed the trail for a mile before it
disappeared in hard ice.
Some scientists that viewed the photographs could not identify the
tracks as from any known creature. Others, though, felt it was
probably the trail of a languar monkey or red bear. They noted the
tracks in snow, melted by the sun, can change shape and grow larger.
Even so, the bear/monkey theory seems unlikely as both of these
animals normally move on all four feet. The tracks were clearly that
of a biped.
Shipton's and Ward's reputations argue against a hoax on their part
and the remoteness and height of the trail's location argues against
them being hoaxed.
Shipton's footprints were not the first or last discovered by climbers
among the Himalayas. Even Sir Edmund Hillary and his Sherpa guide,
Tenzing Norgay, on their record ascent to the top of Mount Everest, in
1953, found giant foot prints on the way up.
One of the more curious reports of a close encounter with a Yeti
occurred in 1938. Captain d'Auvergue, the curator of the Victoria
Memorial in Calcutta, India, was traveling the Himalayas by himself
when he became snowblind. As he neared death from exposure he was
rescued by a nine foot tall Yeti that nursed him back to health until
d'Auvergue was able to return home by himself.
In many other stories, though, the Yeti hasn't been so benign. One
Sherpa girl, who was tending her yaks, described being surprised by a
large ape-like creature with black and brown hair. It started to drag
her off, but seemed to be startled by her screams and let her go. It
then savagely killed two of her yaks. She escaped with her life and
the incident was reported to the police, who found footprints.
Several expeditions have been organized to track down the Yeti, but
none have found more than footprints and questionable artifacts like
scalps and hides. The London Daily Mail sent an expedition in 1954.
American oil men Tom Slick and F. Kirk Johnson financed trips in 1957,
58, and 59. Probably the most well-known expedition went in 1960.
So far there is no firm evidence to support the existence of the Yeti,
but there is no way show that he doesn't exist either.
Ernie Primeau
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In 1998 I took a sojourn in India, I lived there for a while in NW India's Himalayan foothills, the closest airstrip would be Bhuntar. I did the usual stuff, hiking, playing hours of karrom and generally soaking up the sights. We took walks that lasted days through places like the uninhabited Sanj valley, met the strange people of Mallana (who haven't bred outside their own village since Alexander the Great, or so the local opinion goes, indeed your not even allowed to touch them!) but it wasn't far from a pretty busy little place called Kasol where I had my rude awakening. If you look on the map I suppose the closest place you will see is Manikuran. The country there is pretty dammed wild, you can hear boulders migrating down the river beds at night in the powerful course of the glacier melt waters! We were staying in a chai house about 2 miles from Kasol and after a trip into town for a hair cut and something to eat other than chick pea Dahl! I had to turn off the road to take care of nature. I knew I couldn't get lost as the path ran parallel to the river so I veered iff for some privacy, it's hard to come by in India!
I walked to the river, about 10 feet from the bank, and found a suitable enclave, the noise from the river cuts out all other noise. Without going into to much personal detail I had my back to the enclave looking out through the bushes towards the water, and had been there maybe five minutes. Something moved to my right and when I turned, which I did cautiously because there are black bears there and this thing was about 10 feet from me, I saw what can only be described yeti, standing also looking out towards the river, the sighting could have only lasted a couple if seconds, it was stood slightly higher than me on the same rocky enclave I was squat behind. Horrible to faced with that when your pants are round your ankles!!
It wasn't that tall, maybe a little taller than me so say 6-7 ft but was extremely heavy in the shoulders, and had immense thighs, I could see a suggestion of stomach and chest as the fur was extremely thin around this area. I didn't notice a smell or anything but then the air is constantly moving that close to such a fast river so I can't say it didn't smell, just that I couldn't smell it. It's shoulders were massively built, I remember the biggest impact it made were it's thighs and shoulder. It's arms were very thick and I think longer than ours would be in proportion to its body. It's face wasn't easy to discern because I was lower than it and I was squatting put I do remember the powerful jaw line and heavy brow that I could just about make out, it did have ears though, slightly obscured by the fur but small like a child's. I couldn't make out the top of the head. It's fur or hair was thick around the front part of the shoulder but shorter and thinner else where, and was brown where it was shorter and became slightly grey at the longer parts.
Anyway, it popped through the bushes and stared out across the river, it was slightly crouched with its right hand about shoulder height on a tree, I was down against the enclave and to it's left. I froze. Don't think I even blinked. It never did see me, which I cannot understand to this day but I guess the closeness of the river, with the noise and the misty spray you get must have dulled it's senses. It turned to its right then moved very quickly across the back of the tree and was gone, I couldn't hear it go because of the river. It's the one and only time I never bothered wiping my arse, that's for sure, I made my way quickly back to the path and headed for the chai place, I was dammed glad my room was in the first floor. I never did report it, Indian police wouldn't have given a toss, and I didn't tell fellow travellers at the chai shop, I didn't know them well enough to blurt that out, I did feel a little guilty, as perhaps they should have been told for their own safety, but I chickened out, not proud of that. I've never even told my wife of 11 years, she doesn't believe in anything she can't touch or see, so I don't think I ever will. I'm absolutely positive of what I witnessed, I was damn close, this was not someone hoaxing me, people struggle to exist out their financially, no one would possess a million dollar special effects suit solely to scare me shitless. When I look back I wish I'd seen it's face, but then I guess it would have seen me and I don't know what its reaction may have been, animals don't react well when you surprise them.
I hope this info helps you guys, I do wish sometimes for another opportunity to see such a creature but have to content myself that I saw something not many people see, I do wish I could rewind time sometimes and record that event as I know very few people would believe me, thanks guys for letting me get this out, it's the first time I've told anyone, although I do think about it from time to time