The Sherpa and the Snowman

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Bedard, Paul; Fox, Lauren (2 September 2011). "Documents Show Feds Believed in the Yeti". U.S. News & World Report . Retrieved 2 September 2011. Some speculate these reported creatures could be present-day specimens of the extinct giant ape Gigantopithecus. [78] [79] [80] [81] However, the Yeti is generally described as bipedal, and most scientists believe Gigantopithecus to have been quadrupedal, and so massive that, unless it evolved specifically as a bipedal ape (like the hominids), walking upright would have been even more difficult for the now extinct primate than it is for its extant quadrupedal relative, the orangutan. According to H. Siiger, the Yeti was a part of the pre- Buddhist beliefs of several Himalayan people. He was told that the Lepcha people worshipped a "Glacier Being" as a God of the Hunt. He also reported that followers of the Bön religion once believed the blood of the "mi rgod" or "wild man" had use in certain spiritual ceremonies. The being was depicted as an ape-like creature who carries a large stone as a weapon and makes a whistling swoosh sound. [29] Lak, Daniel (26 September 2003). "Yeti's 'non-existence' hard to bear". BBC News . Retrieved 27 January 2012. Rupert Matthews (2014) [2008]. Sasquatch: North America's Enduring Mystery; Kindle locations 1624–1805, 2588–94 . Arcturus Publishing. ISBN 978-1-78404-107-6.

Taylor, Daniel (1995). Something Hidden Behind the Ranges: An Himalayan Quest. San Francisco: Mercury House. ISBN 1562790730. In 1986, South Tyrolean mountaineer Reinhold Messner claimed in his autobiography My Quest for the Yeti that the Yeti is actually the endangered Himalayan brown bear, Ursus arctos isabellinus, or Tibetan blue bear, U. a. pruinosus, which can walk both upright or on all fours. [71] [72]

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Cronin, Edward W. (1979). The Arun: A Natural History of the World's Deepest Valley. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. p.153. ISBN 0395262992. Daegling, David J. (2004) Bigfoot Exposed: An Anthropologist Examines America's Enduring Legend, AltaMira Press, p. 260, footnote 21, ISBN 0-7591-0538-3.

The author is at pains to point out that at no time during his time there, did any of the Sherpa look for a reward, or to benefit in any way from information provided. Many were reluctant to discuss their experiences. Sullivan, Tim (10 August 2008). "Losing the yeti in the forgotten nation of Butan". The Victoria Advocate. In 1925, N. A. Tombazi, a photographer and member of the Royal Geographical Society, writes that he saw a creature at about 15,000ft (4,600m) near Zemu Glacier. Tombazi later wrote that he observed the creature from about 200 to 300yd (180 to 270m), for about a minute. "Unquestionably, the figure in outline was exactly like a human being, walking upright and stopping occasionally to pull at some dwarf rhododendron bushes. It showed up dark against the snow, and as far as I could make out, wore no clothes." About two hours later, Tombazi and his companions descended the mountain and saw the creature's prints, described as "similar in shape to those of a man, but only six to seven inches long by four inches wide... [32] The prints were undoubtedly those of a biped." [33] Purported Yeti footprint taken by C.R. Cooke in 1944On 25 July 2008, the BBC reported that hairs collected in the remote Garo Hills area of North-East India by Dipu Marak had been analysed at Oxford Brookes University in the UK by primatologist Anna Nekaris and microscopy expert Jon Wells. These initial tests were inconclusive, and ape conservation expert Ian Redmond told the BBC that there was similarity between the cuticle pattern of these hairs and specimens collected by Edmund Hillary during Himalayan expeditions in the 1950s and donated to the Oxford University Museum of Natural History, and announced planned DNA analysis. [61] This analysis has since revealed that the hair came from the Himalayan goral. [62] Bun manchi, chemo, chemogah, chemong, chomo, dremo, dremong, dzu-teh, meh-teh, metoh kangmi, mi-goi, mi-rgod, teh-lma, xueren Sykes, Bryan (2016) The Nature of the Beast: The First Genetic evidence on the survival of apemen, yeti, bigfoot, and other mysterious creatures into modern times During the autumn of 1937, John Hunt and Pasang Sherpa (later Pasang Dawa Lama) encountered footprints on the approaches to and at the Zemu Gap above the Zemu Glacier that were thought to belong to a pair of Yetis. [34]