The news about the Yeti hunt broke on October 4, 2011 that US, Russian, Canadian, Swedish, Estonian, Mongolian and Chinese scientists were invited to assess evidence that the Yeti exists. Reports of alleged Yeti sightings multiplied three times as to what they were twenty years ago in Kemerovo, about 1,988 miles (3,200 kilometers) east of Moscow, and the nearby Altai area.
Yeti: International Scientists Plan for the Hunt
According to Fox news: scitech/2011/10/04/, Russian and US Scientists Gather to Hunt Down Yeti, on October 21, 2008, a group of Japanese mountaineers found a footprint in the snow on the Mount Dhaulagiri in northern. They claimed the legendary Yeti left it and said it could prove that a giant ape lives in the Himalayan peaks.
Will Stewart wrote in the Dailymail UK News, Article 2044813: Yeti Hunt Russian and American Scientists will Pool Cold War Evidence the week of October 2, 2011. The legendary cryptid, an unknown mysterious animal, has stalked Siberia and the Himalayas. There have been numerous reports of sightings and mysterious footprints in the snow. So far, the Yeti, also called, the Abominable Snowman, has eluded being captured or killed. People have sighted the cryptid. Other evidence of its existence include rudimentary twig huts, twisted branches and footprints of up to 14 inches (35 centimeters) long.
International scientists will meet in the Kemerova region of Siberia to hunt for the cryptid Yeti. According to the Russian radio station the Voice of Russia, there will be a conference later this week. The expedition will begin with experts from the six countries meeting at the International Centre of Hominology in Tashtagol. A group of scientists from the conference will be dispatched to search the region's mountains to examine the evidence and try sight a Yeti. Some scientists estimate that there’s population of at least several dozen Yetis in the area.
This will be the first expedition of its type since 1958, when scientists from the Soviet Academy of Sciences combed Western Siberia attempting to capture a Yeti. US and Russian scientists have agreed to share secret Cold War evidence in the attempt to prove the cryptids exist.
Yeti: A Scientist’s Theory
Russian Scientist Igor Burtsev, the head of the Yeti institute at Kemerovo State University and Moscow-based International Center of Hominology, believes that about thirty Yetis live in the Kuzbass coal mining area of Kemerovo, where villagers claim they steal sheep and hens. He theorizes that, when Homo sapiens started inhabiting the world, it exterminated its closest relative in the Hominid family, Homo neanderthalensis. Some Neanderthals might have survived in remote mountainous wooded environments.
Yeti: A Failed Expedition
The most recent expedition to find the Yeti failed, in spite of the efforts of the Russian heavyweight boxing champion Nikolai Valuyev, billed as the “Beast from the East.” A local government spokesperson said Valuyev didn’t see a Yeti, but he discovered traces, such as broken tree branches. By the time the expedition reached the Azass cave, members saw huge footprints. There has been some skepticism over this hunt – primarily from those who say that it’s an attempt to boost tourism in Kemerovo.
Yeti: A Recent Sighting
Eighty-two-year-old Raisa Sudochakova’s reported sighting is one of the most recent sightings. She claimed that her dogs howled in fear and fled they saw the Yeti. It was a tall creature, but not gigantic, according to her, and was covered with long brown-grey hair, like a bear. It wasn’t a bear. She explained that she lived in Siberia for all of her life and wouldn’t make a mistake in identification. The creature walked like a human, or almost like a human. Experts speculated she might have seen a young Yeti because other sightings have suggested the creatures are about seven feet tall.
Yeti: Kin in North and South Americas andAsia
Hairy bipeds have been sighted and recorded in all continents except Africa and Antarctica. This raises a question: Almas, Eurasian Hairy Biped, is it Related to the Yeti and Big Foot or a Surviving Neanderthal Tribe? The Almas or Almasty, Mongolian word for “wild man,” is a species of hominids said to live in the Caucasus and Pamir Mountains of central Asia, the Altai Mountains of southern Mongolia, the Karelsky Isthmus between the Gulf of Finland and Lake Ladoga and the Arkhangelsk Region.
A female Almas, Zana, is said to have lived in the remote mountain village, T'khina, in the Caucasus;. She, allegedly, was captured in 1850 and had children by a man, Edgi Genaba.
Around 1941, shortly after the German invasion of the USSR, a detachment of the Red Army, an Almas was captured in the Caucasus. He appeared to be human, but was covered in fine, dark hair. He couldn’t talk or was unwilling to do so and, sadly, was shot as a German spy.
The Tata Duende, a Hairy Biped Sighted in Belize, could be a South American cousin of the Yeti. North America has the Cryptid Hairy Biped Fouke Monster that was the Legend of Boggy Creek.
Yeti: Will the Hunt be Successful?
People who are interested in the Yeti eagerly wait for the results of the hunt. It was said that two Almas were captured, so it’s possible that one or more Yetis could be captured alive. If this happens, it would prove the Yeti exists and would support the speculative science of cryptozoology, the study of unknown mysterious animals.
Questions would be raised. Is this a Neanderthal or a hairy biped? If it’s a hairy biped, is it a breed of an unknown species, as a panther is to the feline family? Descriptions of hairy bipeds vary from region to region, and, in some areas, have two distinct hairy bipeds.
If the hunt is unsuccessful, most likely, the conclusion is that it was futile. Failure does not prove the existence of the Yeti. Cryptids are elusive. If Burtsev’s theory is correct, Yetis would try to hide from humans, which is why they are elusive. Perhaps, there will be a third expedition. Only time will tell.
Jill Stefko - I'd rather deal with the paranormal than human abnormal - having dealt extensively with both.
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