Where is the yeti from
Evidence of the Yeti | National Geographic
at seventeen and a half thousand feet
Everest base camp was a ragged
collection of tents on a moon like seal
boulders near here is worshipped and
took his remarkable photograph the image
that started the West's obsession with
the Yeti
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it was late in the afternoon on November
the 8th 1951 and shipped in and the
expedition's doctor Michael Ward were
working on a glacier a couple of miles
from here and then suddenly they came
across a set of huge footprints that
went away from them down the glacier and
it left them completely mystified the
mystery footprints were about 12 inches
long and five inches wide Shipton even
had the presence of mind to use his own
ice axe to give a sense of scale to find
any footprints at such high altitude was
simply inexplicable so high above the
treeline and so high above any human
habitation they didn't look like the
footprints of a man a bear or a yak the
only animals that could even conceivably
be one a glacier at this altitude but
the Sherpas knew exactly what they were
Yeti footprints another member of the
Shipton team Tom bordelon saw the
footprints a few days later and when he
wrote a letter home he used the
memorable phrase the abominable snowman
is not a myth
Shipton's picture made headlines around
the globe nowadays they be cries of hoax
but back in the 1950s respectable
adventurers were taken at their word
this iconic photograph marked a new
beginning and Yeti mania was born
