![]() ![]() The World Book Encyclopedia then got captivated by the Yeti and approached Edmund Hillary. They even took along bloodhounds to track the scent. One of them had 500 porters and spent 6 months in the field. Then American oilman Tom Slick mounted several expeditions. ![]() That’s when Yeti fever took off, though the name for the Yeti was given as the Abominable Snowman. The most important one was the Daily Mail one in 1954. Numerous expeditions were sent out in search of the Yeti. Its enormous size-13 inches-also suggests a magnificent hominoid, a King Kong type of image! And the media grabbed it. So, you get this primate-like feeling but hominoid at the same time. The second feature was that the prints looked like a human footprint, but with a thumb. The snow was hard so the photo looks like a sort of plaster of Paris cast. ![]() What was captivating about the prints was that they’re really sharp. Shipton was one of the most highly respected Everest explorers, so if he is bringing back a print, it is a real print. Shipton and Michael Ward were searching for an alternative Everest route when they came across the prints. The photograph was taken on the Menlung Glacier, west of Mount Everest, on the Nepal-Tibet border. Talk us through that event-and why Shipton’s image has been regarded as the Rosetta Stone in Yeti lore. The key evidence for the existence of the Yeti was the photo of a footprint taken by British explorer Eric Shipton in 1951. ![]()
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