Stories about a yeti

Answer 1

Synopsis: In 1832, B.H. Hodgson, the British representative in Nepal, published an article about a strange mountain creature in a scientific journal. He described a hirsute creature who reportedly had attacked his servants. The natives called the beast "rakshas," which means "demon." This was the first report of the Yeti made by a Westerner. His told him that references to such wild men went back to the fourth century, BC. Hodgson had derided his servatns' talk of a demon creature and explained the intruder as a stray orangutan.

It was fifty-seven years later in 1889 that Major L.A. Waddell of the Indian Army Medial Corps became the first European to see footprints made by one of the mountain monsters. The tracks were discovered 17000 feet up in northeast Sikkim.

The next report was in 1913, when a group of Chinese hunters reportedly wounded and captured a hairy man-like creature, that the locals soon named the "snowman". This creature was supposedly kept captive in Patang at Sinkiang province for a period of five months until it died. It was described as having a black monkey-like face and large body covered with silvery yellow hair several inches long; it's hands and feet were man-like and the creature was incredibly strong. Remarkably, no evidence is present to substantiate this report.

Forward to 1921, to the inevitable, alleged encounter of European and Yeti. Lieutenant-Colonel C.K. Howard-Bury had led the first Everest Reconnaissance Expedition. He and his team were climbing over a ridge at some 21000 feet, when one of his guides gripped his arm excitedly and pointed out a dark upright figure moving rapidly through the snow. On his return to his own country, Howard-Bury read up on the ways and customs of the Himalayan wild man, and learned that naughty Tibetan children are threatened into good behavior by warnings about the Yeti. "To escape from him, they must run down the hill, as then his long hair falls over his eyes and he is unable to see them."

In 1925 a Greek/British photographer, N.A. Tombazi, observed one of these elusive creatures at 15000 feet up in the Zemu Glacier. His testimoney mentioned that the creature was "exactly like a human being, walking upright and stopping occasionally to uproot or pull some dwarf rhododendron bushes." Tombazi, later reached the spot where he sighted the creature, only to also find some intriguing tracks in the snow.

Belief in the Yeti was growing from country to country, when in 1934, Maurice Wilson, theorized that they were mystical hermits, rather than wild beasts. This theory was also shared by the German missionary-doctor, Father Franz Eichinger. They were supposedly solitary monks who had withdrawn from the pressures of civilization and who lived in cold but contemplative peace in their mountain caves.

Soon after, 1938 marked the point at which the Yeti became a creature of sympathy and kindness thanks to the story of Captain d'Auvergne. He claimed to have been injured while travelling on his own in the Himalayas, threatened with snowblindness and exposure. He was saved from death by a 9 foot tall Yeti. The giant picked him up, carried him several miles to a cave and fed and nursed him until he was able to make his way back home.

And soon after, in 1942, the events from Slavomir Rawicz's book, The Long Walk (pub. 1952) had occured. He describes how he and his six friends escaped from a Siberian POW Camp and crossed the Himalayas to freedom in India. The book of course came under widespread attack as more fiction than fact, as there was the physical unlikeliness of surviving such a journey, including a 12-day hike across the Gobi desert with little food and water. Slavomir also described in his book, their encounter with two 8-foot-tall creatures near Bhutan and Sikkim. For two hours, he and his companions watched the creatures from 100 yards.

The Daily Mail team in 1954 decided to organize its own expedition, and came up with a few hairs from a 300-year-old alleged Yeti scalp, kept in a Buddhist temple. The scalp, conical in shape, is about 8 inches high and has a base circumference of 26 inches. The hair was later analyzed and could not be attributed to any known animals. Even recent DNA testing of the found hair, defied analysis.