[animalnepal] (NP) - Yeti Quest Continues

[Guest guest]

Are we really bored as a species or what? Instead of looking for Yetis why

not look for better ways to interact with the wild animals we know about?

Buddha help the yeti if he is ever found...it will be King Kong only a

reality show.

Jigs

 

> Lucia <lucia

> <animalnepal >

> Mon, 03 Dec 2007 23:48:25 -0800

> <animalnepal >, <aapn >

> [animalnepal] NE - Yeti Quest Continues

>

> The yeti quest continues.....seems the debate takes energy away from

> protecting what is probably the real yeti, the endangered Brown Bear and

> its Tibetan subspecies. Two such 'chemos' lead a sad existence in the Lhasa

> Zoo.

>

> The Himalayan Times Online

> http://www.thehimalayantimes.com/PrintStory.asp?filepath=aATaoanlaNaeaw2a/a2Ta

> 0ra/Wa2a/yugaHaoZaea/aFWata0a0wxyedtxsvoIamal

>

> Yeti footprints found at Khumbu, explorers claim

> Kathmandu, November 30:

> A team of explorers has arrived in the capital with an exciting story of

> finding footprints of yeti near the base camp of Mount Everest, at Khumbu.

> " We are happy to say that we have found footprints of yeti. And the snowman

> is no more a legend for us now, " Joshua Gates, the team leader of the

> expedition of the American television channel Destination Truth, told the

> media today.

> Showing the model of the footprint, collected at the site, he added that

> some scientific research would continue in the US regarding its

> authenticity and other phases of exploration for further studies.

> The team, consisting of 9 Americans and 14 Nepalis, left Kathmandu on 24

> November and arrived here today after competing the expedition. After

> finding the footprints, they chartered a helicopter and directly flew back

> to the capital.

> He said that the team found the footprints when it was returning from

> Khumbu by the confluence of Ghettekhola and Dudhkoshi rivers, near Monju

> village at a height of 2,850 metres.

> It was Tul Bahadur Rai, assistant guide of the team, who first spotted the

> footprint by the riverbank.

> " 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 model of the footprint, after they were convinced that it indeed was

> a footprint, " he told this daily.

> He also said that one of the prints was around 12 inches long and others

> were smaller because the ground was not even and the prints were not clear.

> This is not the first time, footprints of yeti, a species of hairy,

> humpbacked and dark giant biped ape, were found in Nepal's Himalayan

> valleys. 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 who claimed to have seen yeti was the father of Tenzing

> Norgay Sherpa, the first person to climb Everest.

> Similarly, British mountaineers Eric Shipton and Michael Ward found the

> yeti footprints in 1951 near the border area.

> Even Sir Edmund Hillary and his Sherpa guide, Tenzing Norgay, found giant

> footprints on the way up the top of Mount Everest, in 1953.

>

[Guest guest]

>Buddha help the yeti if he is ever found...it will be King Kong only

>a reality show.

 

 

The actual plan, I understand, is to train captured yetis

to ride cloned woolly mammoths in games of elephant hockey played on

frozen lakes.

 

The surrounding mountains will be turned into bleachers,

seating screaming throngs of tens of thousands.

 

 

 

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