On October 13, 2011, the official web site of Russia's Kemerovo region posted news that scientists had discovered the evidence while on a research hunt to the region's most remote mountains, as a part of an international Yeti conference. Scientist from the US, Russia, Canada, Sweden, Estonia, Mongolia and China were invited to assess evidence that the Yeti exists.
Yeti: The Hunt
Russian scientists claim they have found incontrovertible proof of the cryptid Yeti’s existence, according to News ninemsn, Scientists Say they have Found Yeti’s Hair and a footprint. During the expedition to the Azasskaya cave, hunters gathered proof that the Shoria Mountains are inhabited by the cryptid in the Kemerovo region. The expedition was organized by the Governor of Kemerovo.
Footage of the expedition aired on Russian television yesterday. This was done to back up earlier announcements of new evidence and shows scientists bending over what they claim is a Yeti's footprint and holding up one of the creature’s hairs.
Not everyone is convinced that its validity and they have questioned the Yeti's existence.
Valery Kimeyev, a local archaeology professor, stated that as long as they don’t find bones of the Yeti, it’s pointless to talk about him. He added that the issue has been talked about for a hundred years, so there must be bones. Could it be that they buried their dead?
Yeti: Abominable Snowman is a Misnomer
Prominent Cryptozoologist Loren Coleman wrote about the subject, in Cryptozoo News Absm Mistake/, He recently heard a BBC News radio report that claimed an original mistranslation caused the mistake of naming the cryptid the Abominable Snowman.
These Himalayan hairy bipeds were not widely known to the Occident until 1921. The events that transpired were sparked by a telegram sent from an expedition in the Mount Everest region.
At approximately seventeen thousand feet, members of the Royal Geographical Society’s 1921 Mount Everest expedition reported watching, through binoculars, a number of dark moving forms on a snowfield. The expedition made its way to a snowfield at twenty-one feet, and found many footprints that were three times the size of a normal human’s. Team leader Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Kenneth Howard-Bury thought they were those of a loping grey wolf, but his Sherpa guides attributed them to a wild man of the snows which they called metoh kangmi.
When the expedition returned to India, the team was interviewed by freelance journalist Henry Newman, then a reporter at the Calcutta Statesman. He’s responsible for the term Abominable Snowman because he mistranslated the word metoh to mean filthy, which he exaggerated as “abominable.”
The telegram to India was sent with the words metch kangmi. There were several points of misinterpretation. The first was the use of metoh. It should have been meh-teh, man-beast. The second was that it was mistakenly transcribed by an Indian telegrapher as metch, instead of metoh. The term was Nepalese, translated as Tibetan. Newman sent the information to two newspapers.
Ralph Izzard in his 1955 book, The Abominable Snowman Adventure, wrote that whatever Newman intended, from 1921 onwards, the Yeti, or what the natives called it, became burdened with the name, Abominable Snowman.
Will the Yeti Expedition Find More Evidence?
The news about the International Team of Scientists will Hunt for the Yeti broke on October 4, 2011.
The most recent prior expedition to find the Yeti failed, despite of the efforts of Russian heavyweight boxing champion Nikolai Valuyev, known as the “Beast from the East,” didn’t find one. He discovered traces, such as broken tree branches. By the time the expedition reached the Azass cave, members saw huge footprints. There was some skepticism about this hunt – primarily from people who say that it was an attempt to increase tourism in Kemerovo.
Eighty-two-year-old Raisa Sudochakova’s reported sighting is one of the most recent reports. She said her dogs howled in fear and fled when they saw the Yeti. It was a tall creature and was covered with long brown-grey hair, like a bear. It wasn’t a bear. She lived in Siberia for all of her life and wouldn’t make a mistake in identification. The cryptid walked like a human, or almost like one. Experts hypothesized that she might have seen a young Yeti because other sightings have suggested the creatures are about seven feet tall.
Hairy bipeds have been sighted and recorded in all continents except Africa and Antarctica. One of the most intriguing is the 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 area,
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 was shot as a German spy.
Will more evidence be found? Will one or more be captured? Perhaps we’ll know soon.
Jill Stefko - I'd rather deal with the paranormal than human abnormal - having dealt extensively with both.
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