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Yeti

Sherpas have told of the yeti for generations – a creature living high in the mountains between the forest and the glacier. In the West it became famous in the 20th century, when mountaineers began bringing back photos of huge tracks in the snow. Relics kept in monasteries as yeti “scalps” and “hands” were genetically tested – they turned out to belong mainly to Himalayan and Tibetan bears, which has not ended the search.

cases
6
years
1925–2017

Unexplained: 1 Disputed: 1 Explained: 4

  1. 1920–1929

    1. 1925 Yeti · Unexplained Tombazi's Sighting near the Zemu Glacier Near the Zemu Glacier, Sikkim, India A photographer on a British geological expedition saw an upright figure tearing at bushes at about 4,600 m, and later found prints resembling human feet.

  2. 1950–1959

    1. 1951 Yeti · Disputed Eric Shipton's Yeti Footprint Photographs Menlung Glacier, Nepal–Tibet border, Nepal During a reconnaissance ahead of an Everest expedition, a mountaineer photographed a huge footprint next to an ice ax – the picture made the yeti famous worldwide.
    2. 1959 Yeti · Explained The Pangboche Hand Pangboche Monastery, Khumbu region, Nepal A member of Tom Slick's expedition secretly took away fragments of a relic believed to be a yeti hand – in 2011 a DNA test showed the bone is human.

  3. 1960–1969

    1. 1960–1961 Yeti · Explained Hillary's Expedition and the Khumjung Yeti Scalp Khumjung, Khumbu region, Nepal Edmund Hillary borrowed the famous “yeti scalp” from the Khumjung monastery and took it to the West for testing – it turned out to have been molded from serow skin.

  4. 1980–1989

    1. 1986 Yeti · Explained Anthony Wooldridge's Yeti Photograph Near Hemkund, Garhwal, Uttarakhand, India A Briton crossing the Himalayas alone photographed a motionless dark figure on a slope – a year later it turned out to be a jutting rock.

  5. 2010–2019

    1. 2014–2017 Yeti · Explained Genetic Analysis of “Yeti” Samples Ladakh, India (origin of one of the samples), India An Oxford geneticist announced that two “yeti” samples resembled the DNA of a prehistoric polar bear – later analyses pointed to ordinary Himalayan bears.