Ep 92: The Yeti Part 2

“One does not meet oneself until one catches the reflection from an eye other than human.” – – Loren Eiseley, from his book, "The Unexpected Universe"

The photograph taken by Eric Shipton that introduced the legend of the Yeti to the western world in the mid-twentieth century. 

Shipton laid his boot next to the footprint for a size comparison.

Noted mountaineer and explorer Eric Earle Shipton, who along with Dr. Michael Ward, was the first to photograph what was thought to be the footprint of a Yeti while on an expedition to Mt. Everest.

This is what an adventurer looks like.

Photo of Anthony Wooldridges's March 1986 sighting of what he thought was a Yeti holding still.

Detail: A subsequent expedition reportedly claimed that what Anthony Wooldridge actually saw was a rock formation that only resembled a humanoid shape.

On display at the Khumjung monastery in Nepal is a relic some believed was the scalp of a Yeti.  However, it seems DNA testing has shown the scalp is actually the rump hide from a goat.

 

LOCATION: The village of Pangboche, near a main Everest basecamp.

BACKGROUND:

You've heard the eye-witness accounts of encounters with the Yeti, but can you believe them?  The DNA of supposed Yeti "evidence" has been tested, and it's hard to argue those results, but how do we know those bits were really from a Yeti as locals know it?  And speaking of what the locals know, the western world likes to take one answer and apply it to many questions, while the eastern world knows that there can be several answers to a question.  The locals also know what they saw when it comes to the question of the Yeti, and if they are right, and we combine that with the results from the scientific analysis, could there then be several correct answers as to what a "Yeti" really is?

Map showing locations of featured Yeti sightings, by ARC member Cody Rice

Reference Links:

• Professor Daniel C. Taylor's 60-year search for the Yeti on National Geographic

• The Yeti on Wikipedia

• The Almas or "Wild Man" of Caucasus and Pamir Mountains of central Asia, and the Altai Mountains of southern Mongolia

• Anthony Wooldridge's 'Rock Yeti'

• Christie's auction of Eric Earle Shipton's original Yeti footprints in the Menlung Basin

• Obit of Michael Ward, Mountaineering doctor who was with Shipton at sighting of the footprint

• Destination Truth S02, E01 - The Yeti

• National Geographic's "Bigfoot: The New Evidence – Evidence of the Yeti" video clip

• Nat Geo Image Gallery from: Bigfoot: The New Evidence: Yeti

• "Bigfoot" Unmasked from Nat Geo's Phenomena - A Science Salon

• Nat Geo's "Hunt for the Abominable Snowman - Legends of the Yeti" with Gerry Moffatt

• Foreign Service Despatch 75 from the American Embassy, Kathmandu

• Cryptozoologist Dale A. Drinnon and his article, "More on Yetis and Giant Orangutans"

• Pangboche Hand by Donna Yates from the Trafficking Culture website

• Village of Panboche in Khumjung VDC of Solukhumbu District, Nepal

• Jimmy Stewart describes meeting "Harvey"

• PDF: THE FRIENDLY YETI by Daniel Capper, Ph.D., Assoc. Prof. of Religion, The U. of S. Mississippi

• PDF: Genetic analysis of hair samples attributed to yeti, bigfoot and other anomalous primates by Bryan C. Sykes, et al.

• PDF: Evolutionary history of enigmatic bears in the Tibetan Plateau-Himalaya Region
  and the identity of the Yeti from the journal: Proceedings of the Royal Society B

• "Himalayan ‘yeti’ DNA: polar bear or DNA degradation?..." by C. J. Edwards, R. Barnett

• Science solves the mystery of the elusive Yeti from CNN WIRE

• Study Reveals Biological Identities of Bigfoot, Yeti, Bolstering Case Against Them from Nat Geo

• Scientists challenge 'Abominable Snowman DNA' results by Steven McKenzie, BBC Scotland Highlands and Islands reporter

• The 1938 Tibet Yeti account by Captain V. d' Auvergne on bigfootencounters.com

• Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, Volume 1 with B. H. Hodgson's account

• The Abominable Snowman or Yeti from Proof-of-Evolution.com

• Dyatlov Pass and Mass Murdering Yeti? A DN Exclusive by Benjamin Radford from Doubtful News

• HOW FORENSIC TECHNIQUES AID ARCHAEOLOGY

• The Pleistocene Epoch

• HOMINID AND HOMININ – WHAT’S THE DIFFERENCE?

• "First Ascent" Filmmaker Gerry Moffatt

• Australia's "Yowie" Wildman

Related Books:

Yeti - The Ecology of a Mystery

By Daniel C. Taylor

Buy on Amazon

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Credits:

Episode 92: The Yeti Part 2.  Produced by Scott Philbrook & Forrest Burgess; Audio Editing by Sarah Vorhees Wendel; Ryan McCullough Sound Design; Research Assistance by Tess Pfeifle and the astonishing League of Astonishing Researchers, a.k.a. The Astonishing Research Corps, or "A.R.C." for short. Copyright 2017 Astonishing Legends Productions, LLC. All Rights Reserved.