Why is the yeti a mystery

It has appeared in tales told on both sides of the mountains, in India, Bhutan, Tibet and Nepal, but features most strongly in the legends of the Sherpa, the communities that live at an average altitude of 12,ft in eastern Nepal.

The creature is said to live up high in the eternal snows and be bigger than a human, with long hair covering its entire body. It walks upright on two bare feet. Importantly, it is not friendly. Stories include ones where the yeti blocks all the doors to a village's homes while the men are away, another one where the humans try to trick yetis into destroying each other but only succeed in enraging the creatures into vowing revenge on people. There are also female yetis: one in particular caught a man, with whom she had two children.

When he escaped with the son, she killed and ate her own daughter. Of course, modern day depictions of the yeti are often a little nicer.

Last year's DreamWorks film Abominable saw a little girl make friends with the very fluffy yeti she found living on her roof. The yeti, also known as the Abominable Snowman, is a legendary creature that is said to inhabit the upper reaches of the Himalayas. Stories of people seeing the yeti or its footprints are common in parts of India, Nepal and Bhutan.

In , research by a British scientist concluded that the legendary Himalayan yeti may in fact be a sub-species of brown bear. Twitter users reacted with disbelief that the Indian army would make such a bold claim about the footprints of a "mythical beast". This must be vetted thoroughly before the decision to declare something as ridiculous as this is made.

Seriously disappointing to see Army propagating such foolish myths into reality. Expected better from you guys. And I spotted Bigfoot's footprints in Singapore last Sunday. What a coincidence! Join Us On Facebook Close.

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In , a journalist named Henry Newman interviewed a group of British explorers who had just returned from a Mount Everest expedition.

The explorers told the journalist they had discovered some very large footprints on the mountain to which their guides had attributed to "metoh-kangmi," essentially meaning "man-bear snow-man.

Thus a legend was born. In her book " Still Living? Yeti, Sasquatch, and the Neanderthal Enigma " , Thames and Hudson , researcher Myra Shackley offers the following description, reported by two hikers in who saw "two black specks moving across the snow about a quarter mile below them. The shoulders sloped sharply down to a powerful chest Reddish-brown in color and bipedal, it was busy grubbing up roots and occasionally emitted a loud high-pitched cry.

It's not clear if these sightings were real, hoaxes or misidentifications, though legendary mountaineer Reinhold Messner, who spent months in Nepal and Tibet, concluded that large bears and their tracks had often been mistaken for Yeti. He describes his own encounter with a large, unidentifiable creature in his book " My Quest for the Yeti: Confronting the Himalayas' Deepest Mystery " St.

Martin's, In March , Anthony Wooldridge , a hiker in the Himalayas, saw what he thought was a Yeti standing in the snow near a ridge about feet meters away. It didn't move or make noise, but Wooldridge saw odd tracks in the snow that seemed to lead toward the figure. He took two photographs of the creature, which were later analyzed and proven genuine. Many in the Bigfoot community seized upon the photos as clear evidence of a Yeti, including John Napier , an anatomist and anthropologist who had served as the Smithsonian Institution's director of primate biology.

Many considered it unlikely Wooldridge could have made a mistake because of his extensive hiking experience in the region.