Team Sets Out to Find Abominable Snowman

The Associated Press ^

[sonsofliberty2000]

TOKYO - A Japanese expedition equipped with sensor-activated cameras and led by an amateur cryptozoologist is heading to the Himalayas hoping to track down the abominable snowman.

Seven climbers will spend six weeks in Nepal trying to capture images of the legendary humanlike creature also known as the yeti, more than 10,000 feet up the world's seventh-tallest mountain, the expedition's leader, Yoshiteru Takahashi, told The Associated Press on Thursday.

Takahashi, a 60-year-old construction company employee who climbs as a hobby, is on his second yeti hunt. He says he found humanlike footprints made by a "rather large animal" in a cave about 15,000 feet up Dhaulagiri on a previous expedition in 1994.

"I want to find out what made those footprints." Takahashi said. "They definitely didn't belong to a bear."

The expedition, which leaves Sunday, plans to "ambush" the elusive creature — which Takahashi believes is some kind of primate — by setting up about 15 cameras that are automatically activated by infrared sensors.

Takahashi described his expedition, which has no backing from Japan's academic community, as "just bunch of climbers" who had all seen unfamiliar footprints on past ascents of the Dhaulagiri range.

"I don't consider this a mystery," he said. "The yeti exists — I just want to figure out what kind of animal it is."

[rrrod]

HOPE THEY FIND IT ..HILLARY NEEDS A NEW MATE!

[Born Conservative]

And while they are at it, maybe they can look for Elvis...

[fishtank]

[Delbert]

What the hell is that?

[dirtboy]

- A Japanese expedition equipped with sensor-activated cameras and led by an amateur cryptozoologist is heading to the Himalayas hoping to track down the abominable snowman.

Why are they in the Himalayas? There are thousands of confirmed sightings of one in South Florida.

[fishtank]

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[RightWhale]

When they find it it will turn out to favor extensive after-school programs and cradle to grave medical. It will make us yearn for the days of true conservatism under Colin Powell.

[jimkress]

Abominable Snowman = Bill Clinton sorting coke.

[dark_lord]

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Apparently some of the "Womyn's" movement types are not complete loonies.

[Snake Eater]

Maybe they'll find Jimmy Hoffa.

[Sacajaweau]

You go where?? Me go to find Yeti?? You be gone long?? Me be gone very long? You go with who?

Let's cut the accent cr**.

I'm going fishing with the guys for a month. We'll do the saloons weekends and be prepared for a sh**load of laundry when I get back.

[inquest]

Is there a scientific definition of "abominable"? I mean, otherwise how will they know they've found it?

[Bacon Man]

A rare photo of the Yeti taken by a hiker who was unlucky enough to cross it's path.
This photo and a single sneaker were all that remained.

[Sacajaweau]

Excellent revelation of the Yeti!!!

[appalachian_dweller]

>> Abominable Snowman = Bill Clinton sorting coke. <<

ROTFL!! Good one!

[mhking]

Just damn.

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[Between the Lines]

Tell the Japanese to leave the Yeti alone. Things didn't turn out so well for them when they found Godzilla or Mothra. People killed, cities ruined. Now they are looking for another monster to exploit.

[spetznaz]

The abominable snowman (known as the Yeti to most outside the US) is basically the international version of BigFoot (sasquatch). Said to be huge, white-furred, and with a temperment that is at times benign (even helpful), and sometimes malevolent.

In the himalayas Tibetan monks sell what they claim to be Yeti fur-coats, teeth, bones etc etc etc. In the majority of cases those things turn out to be the teeth of snow-leopards, or the bones of ibexes ......but there are a couple of documented cases where the origin of some bones and skulls cannot be identified.