Khuks and yetis

[Grob]

Recently I have been reading an old autobiography of one of my heros. Tenzing Norgay Sherpa, it was written in '55 just two years after the first summiting of everest. Anyways he spends a fair bit of time talking about his life in Solo Khumbu (eastern nepal). For some of the time he talks about yetis and his opinions on them as well as the local folklore one of them promenantly feautred everybodies favorite knife. It goes somthing like this.

In Sherpa village in Solo Khumbu was constantly bothered by yetis, everytime the villagers where away dozens of yetis would come into the village and destroy everything, they would tear up the crops and smash the buildings. Afterward they would try to put it all back together but being yetis did not know how so they would plant the crops upside down and put the buildings back together in the wrong way. The people of the village went out hunting for the yetis again and again but could never find them. Finaly one clever villager found a place where the yetis frequently gathered and hauled out there many bowls of chang (a hot alcoholic drink made from fermented grain) and a great many very sharp khukris. That night the yetis came back to this spot, drank all the chang, and began to fight. The next morning almost all the yetis were dead and the rest fled never to bother the village again.

I purpose adding a note to the safty thread about not lending your khuks to drunk yetis.

 

[Eric006]

 

[Eric006]

 

[Andrew Colglazier]

That was surely not a serious story, but I just finished a biography called "The Long Walk - The True Story of a Trek to Freedom", by Reginald Downing, for Slavomir Rawicz who was an officer in the Polish cavalry.

Rawicz was captured by the Russians early in WWII, and sent off to a Siberian labor camp.

Rawicz and a handful of other prisoners escaped from the camp, then walked to India where they were welcomed by the British army.

They crossed the Himalayas on their trek, and as an aside to the entire ordeal, came across a pair of Yetis high in the mountains.

It was just a tiny part of the entire story, but this fellow's account is the only one I have ever heard that would be remotely inclined to give credence to.

Andy

 

[Sutcliffe]

Show me some kind of physical evidence and I will eat my hat. People are prone to take experiances and fill in gaps of what the percieve. Throw in physical and mental exhaustion, starvation, high altitude, and dehydration and the human mind is capable of anything.

Never told this story before but I was backpacking in Henry Coe State Park back in '89. I woke up hearing some really freaky high pitched voice of some wild animal or something that I'd never heard before and it creeped me out. Fast foward to the most recent holidays and I stumbled onto a cryptozoology site that had some guy with a file on recordings he made of Big Foot. Really, really similar if not the same. Weird?
I still don't believe in Big Foot, but it does make me wonder where he got or how he produced those sounds.

Eric006-Nice taste in ale. Not everybody appreciates a good Imperial.

 

[Ihatehippies]

I read The Long Walk a few years ago. That's an amazing story. Sometimes I might think I'm having a rough day, then I just think about stuff like that and my life seems pretty easy.
About the Yeti's anyway, anything's possible I suppose. I would think by now some scientist somewhere would have found some hard evidence: bones, tracks, scat or dwellings. Maybe tools. Something. Maybe they can become invisible and they never poop and they never die. Maybe.

 

[Grob]

The above story is folklore, I dont think anyone contends that it is true.

As to the existance of yetis, it would be arrogant in the extreme to assume we know every creature that exists. I would not be overly surprised to find out that there is some sort of rare endangered ape living in the himalayas. In Tenzings book he shows pictures of tracks and a skull he also claims to have found scat several times as a child that contained plant matter and small mammal bones but was not recognizable. As to large bipeds, all the even remotly credible accounts I have heard put them at about 4 feet and semi-bipedal, along the lines of a chimpanzee. Who knows?

 

[Ihatehippies]

In Tenzings book he shows pictures of tracks and a skull he also claims to have found scat several times as a child that contained plant matter and small mammal bones but was not recognizable. As to large bipeds, all the even remotly credible accounts I have heard put them at about 4 feet and semi-bipedal, along the lines of a chimpanzee. Who knows?

Wow, I had no idea. That's exactly what I was talking about. Some kind of hard evidence. I guess it's possible.