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I have received the Yeti history from my cousin Kelsang Lama from Kathmandu Nepal. I would like to share the history with you.
Enjoy!
Kelsang lama 6:23 AM 22/08/2009
Yeti {Manlike Himalayan Animal}
The manlike Himalayan animal is believed to be found at Himalayan region of Nepal. There are different real and manmade stories of yeti. The story of yeti is as mysterious as the story of Bigfoot in North America and Mapinguari in the Amazon. It is believed that yetis were found on the Mentury Glacier between Tibet and Nepal at an altitude of 6000 meters. The people of Tibet along with the Sherpas of Nepal have a firm belief in the yeti. In Tibet, legend meets history and it is sometimes not viable to differentiate between the two. Because of this reason, people have believed in the existence of the yeti for centuries .The yeti is often gave a picture of traditional paintings as a human like creature with long, shaggy hair, yetis are considered to be bigger and much stronger than humans.
What is the most interesting is that nobody has seen yeti face to face. But there are other several weird incidents that have led people to believe that the yeti is more than just a legend. It was before centuries on occasions, mountaineers have reported hearing high-pitched whistles and strange footprints on the ground. Those footprints that were seen in 1951 were 33cm by 45 cm and were made by a foot which has 5 toes of which the inner toes were larger than the others. The heel was flat and exceptionally broad. It measured 13 by 18 inches. The track itself appeared to be fresh so the foot prints were not enlarged by melting snow. Several scientific expeditions have been organized and people have tried to discover the yeti, but there was no gain. Some famous mountaineers have reported seeing big footprints like those of humans in the high mountains {Nepal}. Even some have claimed that the sighting of dark human like figures in the Himalayan. But none of them had an authentic proof .On the most superficial investigation it always resolved into something that somebody have heard of. But in the 20th century the reports of yeti increased when westerners began making determined attempts to scale to the many mountains [In Nepal] in the areas and occasionally reported seeing odd creatures or strange tracks. Even in 1925 N.A. Tambazi, a photographer and member of the royal geographical society, writes that he saw a creature at about 15,000ft [4000m] near 20 m Glaciers. The people of Nepal believe that the yeti existence date back to the 4th century BCE. Its images become more popular since 18632.At the same time western newspaper gave the name The Abominable Snowman; It could make reader feel terror for which the creature supposed to cause in the valleys and glaciers of the Himalayan.
In 1832, B.H. Hodgson, the British representative in Nepal, published an article about a strange mountain creature in a scientific journal. He described a hirsute creature that reportedly had attacked his servants. The natives called the beast rakshas which means demon. This was the first report of the yeti made by a westerner. It was fifty seven years later in 1889 that Major L.A. Waddell of the Indian army medial corps became the first European to see footprints made by one of the mountain monsters. The tracks were discovered 17000 feet up in northeast Sikkim. In 1913, when a group of Chinese hunters reportedly wounded and captured a hairy man like creature, that the locals soon named the snowman. This creature was supposedly kept captive in patang at sinkiang province for a period of five months until it died. It was described as having a black monkey like face and large body covered with silvery yellow hair several inches long; its hands and feet were man like and the creature was incredibly strong. Remarkably, no evidence is present to substantiate this report. Belief in the Yeti was growing from country to country in 1934.Maurice Wilson theorized that they were mystical hermits, rather than wild beasts. Soon after,1938 marked the point at which the yeti became a creature of sympathy and kindness .It is well said by the Zoologists and anthropologists considered the fragments to be almost human and similar in some respects to that of Neanderthal man even they could not be associated to any known living species.
However the time has changed beyond. The people have done a lot more than own imagination. In this 21st century many people who made expedition on physical evidence of yeti described then reports of seeing it or its footprints and the hair of certain creatures were taken to standard university for the expert an ape to analyze it. Still hundred of people claim to see yeti but the news had been since inconclusive. On October 20, 2008, a team of seven Japanese adventurers took photograph of footprints they believed to have been made by a yeti. Where as on August 29, 2009 the Sun newspaper of UK reported that Piotr Kowalski 27, filmed a monstrous, hairy creature while walking in polands Tantra mountains, The figure an into his view as he videoed a mountain goat in an area rich in rumours of a yeti for centuries. Of the many expeditions set out to find. It was also that of Sir Edmund Hillary the first ever man to climb the Mt. Everest. It is said that he and his guide have seen footprints of a yeti on a previous expeditions. He brought back with him and borrowed artifact: the upper half of a skull of a yeti. This scalp came from the Khumjung Gampa[Monastery]in Nepal where it is kept as a relu{Symbol}It is some 300 years old,20cm high and has a circumference of 65 cm. Scientists said it belonged to a serow{mountain goat}which lies in eastern Asia. However just like in 1951 expedition, they found tracks of the yeti, and made costs of its footprints. It is quite shocking to note that it have three distinct types; The Rimi which can be up to 8feet tall and lives at 8000 feet ,the Nvalmot an improbable 15 feet in height and a meet eater that feeds on mountain goats and yak, and the Rakshi Bompa a mere 5 feet vegetarian living on grain and millet. Shy and retiring beings, yetis of all three types prefer to come out at night and are rarely seen in more than two. The Nepalese [people of Nepal] and Tibetan {the people of Tibet} will not kill or harm the beast, in the belief that doing so brings ill luck and misfortune. The yeti is supposed to have a body odor, having long reddish hair that makes a skunk smell good and possess such strength that it can throw boulders around like marbles, and uproot trees like flowers. Descriptions of the yeti voice range from shrill whistles to high pitched yelps to lion throated roars. Yellow skin below matted hair, extremely robust body, cone-shaped head, and an oddly human stance.
All in all, there have been several encounters with the yeti. What is it about the yeti that captures our imagination? It cannot be just the kind of news coverage it got and the people interest that keen. The yeti has become firmly established in peoples minds, almost as if it is apart of global folk history. We dont even know if it exists or not. The only evidence we have is footprints and occasional undocumented sightings. Perhaps the huge interest lies because of our psychological need for the borderland and between fact and fantasy, and in our interest for the possibility of their existence.
Much love
Kelsang lama
Kelsangbk1986@gmail,hotmail.com
SM college 'Journo' student
Teenchuli,Ktm Nepal
Enjoy!
Kelsang lama 6:23 AM 22/08/2009
Yeti {Manlike Himalayan Animal}
The manlike Himalayan animal is believed to be found at Himalayan region of Nepal. There are different real and manmade stories of yeti. The story of yeti is as mysterious as the story of Bigfoot in North America and Mapinguari in the Amazon. It is believed that yetis were found on the Mentury Glacier between Tibet and Nepal at an altitude of 6000 meters. The people of Tibet along with the Sherpas of Nepal have a firm belief in the yeti. In Tibet, legend meets history and it is sometimes not viable to differentiate between the two. Because of this reason, people have believed in the existence of the yeti for centuries .The yeti is often gave a picture of traditional paintings as a human like creature with long, shaggy hair, yetis are considered to be bigger and much stronger than humans.
What is the most interesting is that nobody has seen yeti face to face. But there are other several weird incidents that have led people to believe that the yeti is more than just a legend. It was before centuries on occasions, mountaineers have reported hearing high-pitched whistles and strange footprints on the ground. Those footprints that were seen in 1951 were 33cm by 45 cm and were made by a foot which has 5 toes of which the inner toes were larger than the others. The heel was flat and exceptionally broad. It measured 13 by 18 inches. The track itself appeared to be fresh so the foot prints were not enlarged by melting snow. Several scientific expeditions have been organized and people have tried to discover the yeti, but there was no gain. Some famous mountaineers have reported seeing big footprints like those of humans in the high mountains {Nepal}. Even some have claimed that the sighting of dark human like figures in the Himalayan. But none of them had an authentic proof .On the most superficial investigation it always resolved into something that somebody have heard of. But in the 20th century the reports of yeti increased when westerners began making determined attempts to scale to the many mountains [In Nepal] in the areas and occasionally reported seeing odd creatures or strange tracks. Even in 1925 N.A. Tambazi, a photographer and member of the royal geographical society, writes that he saw a creature at about 15,000ft [4000m] near 20 m Glaciers. The people of Nepal believe that the yeti existence date back to the 4th century BCE. Its images become more popular since 18632.At the same time western newspaper gave the name The Abominable Snowman; It could make reader feel terror for which the creature supposed to cause in the valleys and glaciers of the Himalayan.
In 1832, B.H. Hodgson, the British representative in Nepal, published an article about a strange mountain creature in a scientific journal. He described a hirsute creature that reportedly had attacked his servants. The natives called the beast rakshas which means demon. This was the first report of the yeti made by a westerner. It was fifty seven years later in 1889 that Major L.A. Waddell of the Indian army medial corps became the first European to see footprints made by one of the mountain monsters. The tracks were discovered 17000 feet up in northeast Sikkim. In 1913, when a group of Chinese hunters reportedly wounded and captured a hairy man like creature, that the locals soon named the snowman. This creature was supposedly kept captive in patang at sinkiang province for a period of five months until it died. It was described as having a black monkey like face and large body covered with silvery yellow hair several inches long; its hands and feet were man like and the creature was incredibly strong. Remarkably, no evidence is present to substantiate this report. Belief in the Yeti was growing from country to country in 1934.Maurice Wilson theorized that they were mystical hermits, rather than wild beasts. Soon after,1938 marked the point at which the yeti became a creature of sympathy and kindness .It is well said by the Zoologists and anthropologists considered the fragments to be almost human and similar in some respects to that of Neanderthal man even they could not be associated to any known living species.
However the time has changed beyond. The people have done a lot more than own imagination. In this 21st century many people who made expedition on physical evidence of yeti described then reports of seeing it or its footprints and the hair of certain creatures were taken to standard university for the expert an ape to analyze it. Still hundred of people claim to see yeti but the news had been since inconclusive. On October 20, 2008, a team of seven Japanese adventurers took photograph of footprints they believed to have been made by a yeti. Where as on August 29, 2009 the Sun newspaper of UK reported that Piotr Kowalski 27, filmed a monstrous, hairy creature while walking in polands Tantra mountains, The figure an into his view as he videoed a mountain goat in an area rich in rumours of a yeti for centuries. Of the many expeditions set out to find. It was also that of Sir Edmund Hillary the first ever man to climb the Mt. Everest. It is said that he and his guide have seen footprints of a yeti on a previous expeditions. He brought back with him and borrowed artifact: the upper half of a skull of a yeti. This scalp came from the Khumjung Gampa[Monastery]in Nepal where it is kept as a relu{Symbol}It is some 300 years old,20cm high and has a circumference of 65 cm. Scientists said it belonged to a serow{mountain goat}which lies in eastern Asia. However just like in 1951 expedition, they found tracks of the yeti, and made costs of its footprints. It is quite shocking to note that it have three distinct types; The Rimi which can be up to 8feet tall and lives at 8000 feet ,the Nvalmot an improbable 15 feet in height and a meet eater that feeds on mountain goats and yak, and the Rakshi Bompa a mere 5 feet vegetarian living on grain and millet. Shy and retiring beings, yetis of all three types prefer to come out at night and are rarely seen in more than two. The Nepalese [people of Nepal] and Tibetan {the people of Tibet} will not kill or harm the beast, in the belief that doing so brings ill luck and misfortune. The yeti is supposed to have a body odor, having long reddish hair that makes a skunk smell good and possess such strength that it can throw boulders around like marbles, and uproot trees like flowers. Descriptions of the yeti voice range from shrill whistles to high pitched yelps to lion throated roars. Yellow skin below matted hair, extremely robust body, cone-shaped head, and an oddly human stance.
All in all, there have been several encounters with the yeti. What is it about the yeti that captures our imagination? It cannot be just the kind of news coverage it got and the people interest that keen. The yeti has become firmly established in peoples minds, almost as if it is apart of global folk history. We dont even know if it exists or not. The only evidence we have is footprints and occasional undocumented sightings. Perhaps the huge interest lies because of our psychological need for the borderland and between fact and fantasy, and in our interest for the possibility of their existence.
Much love
Kelsang lama
Kelsangbk1986@gmail,hotmail.com
SM college 'Journo' student
Teenchuli,Ktm Nepal
I think Skeelys', an ndn term for Bigfoot are really cool