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Footprints seen around Mt. Everest stoke Yeti mystery
Rooters ^ | Nov. 30, 2007 | Gopal Sharma

Posted on 12/02/2007 3:13:18 AM PST by jsh3180

KATHMANDU (Reuters) - A U.S.-based television channel investigating the existence of the legendary Yeti in Nepal has found footprints similar to those said to be that of the abominable snowman, the company said on Friday.

A team of nine producers from Destination Truth, armed with infrared cameras, spent a week in the icy Khumbu region where Mount Everest is located and found the footprints on the bank of Manju river at a height of 2,850 meters (9,350 feet).

One of the three footprints discovered on Wednesday is about one foot long, or is of similar size and appearance as shown in sketches of the mystical ape-like creature believed to live in snowy caves, the TV company said.

"It is very very similar," Josh Gates, host of the weekly travel adventure television series, told Reuters in Kathmandu after returning from the mountain.

"I don't believe it to be (that of) a bear. It is something of a mystery for us," said Gates, 30, an archaeologist by training.

Tales by sherpa porters and guides about the wild and hairy creatures lurking in the Himalayas have seized the imagination of foreign mountain climbers going to Mount Everest since the 1920s.

Several teams have searched for it and some have even claimed to have discovered footprints.

But no one has actually seen the creature nor has it been scientifically established that the Yeti exists. Gates said the footprints on lumps of sandy soil, which would be sent to experts in the United States for analysis, were "relatively fresh left some 24 hours before we found them".

"This print is so pristine, so good that I am very intrigued by this," Gates, flanked by his team members, said adding the findings would prompt more investigation into the Yeti.

Destination Truth chronicles some of the world's notorious crypto-zoological creatures and unexplained phenomena.

Some local sherpas believe that the Himalayas are abodes of strange creatures and consider the Yeti as a protector while others say it is a destroyer.

"There is a kind of mysterious creature that lives in the Himalayas," said Ang Tshering Sherpa, chief of Nepal Mountaineering Association in Kathmandu, who hails from the Khumbhu region were Mount Everest is located.


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KEYWORDS: nepal; snowman; yeti
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To: P8riot

That’s nothing. I’ve got a picture of him.


Stop posting pictures of Helen Thomas!


41 posted on 12/02/2007 7:38:32 PM PST by Grizzled Bear ("Does not play well with others.")
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To: jsh3180

Janet Reno?


42 posted on 12/02/2007 7:40:14 PM PST by A CA Guy (God Bless America, God bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: Zman
Maybe the footprint was planted by (Sir Edmund) Hillary to show mountaineering leadership.

I am quite certain that Hillary's namesake would never try to mislead us like that.

43 posted on 12/02/2007 7:49:27 PM PST by USMA '71
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To: Grizzled Bear

I think you owe the abominable snowman an apology.


44 posted on 12/02/2007 7:59:57 PM PST by P8riot (I carry a gun because I can't carry a cop.)
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To: Rb ver. 2.0

Perfect, hope you’ve continued your fun as you’ve gotten older.


45 posted on 12/03/2007 4:20:27 AM PST by Joe Boucher (An enemy of Islam)
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To: jsh3180

They do look like the tracks photographed by Eric Shipton during an expedition to the Himalayas in 1951


46 posted on 12/03/2007 5:19:26 AM PST by NavyCanDo
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To: pcottraux

Please add me to the Crypto list, Thank you in advance.


47 posted on 12/03/2007 5:57:07 AM PST by Carilisa (In the Heart of Big Snow Country)
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To: jsh3180

Obviously made by a bear with a bad case of foot mange.


48 posted on 12/03/2007 6:07:48 AM PST by Justa (Politically Correct is morally wrong.)
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To: Calvin Locke
I've read of accounts from OK but I lived in the SW portion of the state. Now, I can tell you in my personal opinion, based upon experice, they are in WA as I heard them on 6 occasions when I lived there. They are very scary and formidable creatures. www.bfro.net has much more info. on them. Most of the ones I heard sounded like the Snohomish howl. I love reading the accounts on the website. My experiences pale in comparison to most.
49 posted on 12/03/2007 6:15:17 AM PST by Justa (Politically Correct is morally wrong.)
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To: Defendingliberty

Those commercials are HILARIOUS!


50 posted on 12/03/2007 6:26:12 AM PST by reagan_fanatic (Ron Paul put the cuckoo in my Cocoa Puffs)
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To: K4Harty

Wasn’t that Patterson film outed as a fraud? I thought it was.


51 posted on 12/03/2007 7:41:36 AM PST by fleagle ( An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. -Winston Churchill)
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To: fleagle

no actually it wasn’t. As a matter of fact I saw an interview with the leading hollywood costume maker at that time who studied the film and he said, there is no way that is a costume because they didnt have the fake hair that would move and reflect like that at that time. Also he said that the folds of skin and movement were too perfect.

I never bought into any of it until I started reading the reports at BFRO.net and there are first hand eyewitness reports (and newpaper articles)some going back to the 1800’s. I have know Idea what it or they are but there are just too many individuals that have seen these things at different times that report the same consistant things to have it be a coincidence. Many happened before the internet and before the patterson film was even shot. So it would be hard for a bunch of individuals to make up a story of a creature, describing how they look and behave without knowing the other persons descriptions of account.

So I don’t know what it is, I just know I sit back and now go...”hmmmmm” rather than “PPPffff” and dismiss it.


52 posted on 12/03/2007 8:47:28 AM PST by Walkingfeather (u)
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To: jsh3180

bmflr

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Why the smart money is on Duncan Hunter
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1926032/posts
Posted on 11/15/2007 3:43:17 AM PST by Kevmo


53 posted on 12/03/2007 10:46:04 AM PST by Kevmo (We should withdraw from Iraq — via Tehran. And Duncan Hunter is just the man to get that job done.)
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To: jsh3180
Where was Janet Reno?

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54 posted on 12/03/2007 10:47:14 AM PST by Elle Bee
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To: Walkingfeather

Cool. Honestly, I’d LOVE for there to be a big hairy half-human who walks on two legs and lumbers around North America aimlessly (in addition to Janet Reno of course).

Thanks for the info. I guess I was thinking of the Loch Ness monster photog who confessed on his deathbed that it was all a hoax. I was rooting for that to be true also...


55 posted on 12/03/2007 11:16:43 AM PST by fleagle ( An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. -Winston Churchill)
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To: fleagle
That was the pitch for a while. But the newest digital enhancement has given it a lot more credibility. Each of the 900+ frames was digitaly imaged. Then blown up. There is the appearance of eyebrown ridges and facial musculature that could not be faked, as well as the bipedal motions cannot be reproduced by human locomotion. Also, the impressions in the are could only have been made by something in excess of 400-650 lbs.

That being said, it is only the latest info regarding the footage. Until true physical evidence is found, it only adds to the mystery. I would not hinge a conclusion on this, but technology has come a long way in 40 years and it will only get better.

With more true scientists open to the posibility of a large hominid, and the technology they are using, it will be a matter of time for an outcome.

There is a good Monster Quest episode that goes over a lot of what I just talked about. Also, the BFRO and the TBRC have pretty good websites that follow the expeditions. Also cryptomundo.com is a good place to check. K4

56 posted on 12/03/2007 3:08:52 PM PST by IllumiNaughtyByNature (Tagline: optional, printed after your name on post)
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To: fleagle
Guys! The man in this picture is a Mr. Champoux from Moxee, WA. The guy who took the movie was a Roger Patterson. Back in 1966 I met Roger at a tavern West of Yakima, WA. He showed me a number of plaster-of-paris footprints he had in the trunk of his car.

It was a hoax. Patterson died of cancer shortly after this movie was made.

Not long ago, the Yakima Herald Republic featured this and Champoux fessed up to the fact that he was the guy in the gorilla suit. He still had the suit after all of these years.

57 posted on 12/03/2007 3:15:04 PM PST by Parmy
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To: Quix

Whad’ya think about this?


58 posted on 12/03/2007 7:36:41 PM PST by WorkingClassFilth
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To: WorkingClassFilth

I really don’t know what to think of such tales.

So many from so many sources . . . seems like SOMETHING may be going on . . .

but could be nothing more than folks enjoying stirring up other folks with very tall tales.

Then there are the stories of UFO’s letting off various critters on this planet like Yeti etc . . . for mysterious reasons.

God only knows the whole story. And, it doesn’t seem central to HIS priorities to let us in on what He knows about such.

So, I guess we wait and amuse ourselves with the curious stories.

Thanks.


59 posted on 12/03/2007 7:51:49 PM PST by Quix (GOD ALONE IS GOD; WORTHY; PAID THE PRICE; IS COMING AGAIN; KNOWS ALL; IS LOVING; IS ALTOGETHER GOOD)
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To: Parmy

I don’t think so.

http://www.bfro.net/gdb/show_FAQ.asp?id=751


60 posted on 12/03/2007 8:16:48 PM PST by Inyo-Mono (If you don't want people to get your goat, don't tell them where it's tied.)
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