"Yeti" Footprints Discovered, Japanese Explorers Claim (PHOTOS)

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"Yeti" Footprints Discovered, Japanese Explorers Claim (PHOTOS)
Daily Mail 
October 20, 2008 12:32 PM



The Daily Mail reports that a team of Japanese explorers in the Himalayas claims to have found footprints of the abominable snowman. Photos of the footprints below, courtesy of AFP/Getty.

The large hairy creature resembling a human or bear is said to live in the regions of Nepal and Tibet. While the scientific community largely regards the creature as folklore, given the lack of evidence, reports of the yeti go back hundreds of years.

Yoshiteru Takahashi, the leader of the Yeti Project Nepal, made the discovery leading his Japanese team's third attempt at tracking down the half-man-half-ape.

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Pictured: 'Yeti' footprints found by adventurers in Nepal
By Richard Shears
Last updated at 7:39 PM on 20th October 2008

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Footprints from the legendary Yeti have been found in the snow-covered slopes of the Himalayas, a Japanese team of explorers claimed today.

The adventurers could hardly contain their excitement as they told of finding the 8in-long footprints which bore a close resemblance to those of humans.
But, said team leader Yoshiteru Takahashi, they were not human - neither were they the footprints of wolves, deer or snow leopards.


 The alleged footprint of a yeti (left) was measured on a mountain in Nepal and is compared (right) to a human footprint
'They were made by the Yeti, we believe,' said Mr Takahashi, who heads the Yeti Project Japan, after returning from the mountains to the Nepalese capital, Kathmandu.
Stories of the Yeti - also known as the Abominable Snowman - have been passed down through generations of Nepalese families whose ancestors have told of a half-man, half ape, living in the Himalayas, where the world's tallest mountain, Mt Everest, is located.
The scientific community has mostly discounted the stories, saying they are more myth than fact, but Mr Takahashi is convinced the 'creature' exists.
If so, it would be very old, for it was first described in 1832 by Englishman James Prinsep who told of his local guides spotting a tall, bipedal creature covered with long dark hair.

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Takashi is convinced the 8in footprint was made by a yeti and not any other animal

Mr Takahashi also claims to have seen a Yeti when he went to the Himalayas in 2003. On that expedition he was 200 yards away from the apparition but remains convinced he was not mistaken.
'It was in silhouette,' he said. 'It was walking on two legs like a human and looked about 150 centimeters (5ft) tall.' Now, finding strange footprints in the snow on his most recent expedition, has left Mr Takahashi convinced that the Yeti is still wandering among the towering Himalayan peaks.
'We have no doubt about what we have found. This makes us certain that the Yeti exists. As well as the footprints, the stories the locals tell makes us sure that this being is not imaginary.'

Despite spending 42 days on Dhaulagiri IV - a 25,135ft peak where Mr Takahashi says he has seen the shadowy figure in the past - the seven- man team has failed in their prime objective of capturing a Yeti on film.

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Japanese adventurer Yoshiteru Takahashi is convinced his team have found footprints of the yeti
'We set up nine motion-sensitive cameras in the area where I first saw what I believed was it, but we have not got any images.
'But we'll be coming back as soon as we can - and we'll keep coming back until we get the Yeti on film, and then all doubt will vanish.'

Following the first record of a Yeti by James Prinsep, other explorers have also written of the strange creature.
In 1921 explorer Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Howard-Bury told of finding footprints he believed had been made by a large wolf, although they gave the impression of being made by a bare-footed man.

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The footprint was found in the Himalayas, on a 25,135ft peak where the Japanese team believe they saw a yeti five years ago


The yeti, also known as the abominable snowman, is an ape-like creature said to inhabit the Himalayan region of Nepal and Tibet.

The names yeti and meh-teh are commonly used by the people indigenous to the region, and are part of their history and mythology.

The yeti can be considered a Himalayan parallel to the Bigfoot legend of North America.
His Sherpa guides told him, however, that the tracks must have been made by 'The Wild Man of the Snows'.
In 1954, the Daily Mail reported the discovery of hair specimens from what was said to be the scalp of a Yeti. Professor Frederick Woods Jones, an expert in human and comparative anatomy, failed to reach a conclusion, but said the dark brown hair was not from a bear or an anthropoid (manlike) ape.
Alleged sightings and debate has continued through the decades - but so far no-one has been able to produce a clear, definitive photograph of the world's most elusive being.
If it exists at all.

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Fur blur: A 2007 image of the Yeti thought to be prowling around the Himalayas
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