The Yeti is a strange creature that is commonly known all around the world. It has a very strong history and has caused conflict to whether or not it really exist. There are a couple of possible explanations for this bizarre animal. The Yeti is used in culture and known by a different name around the world. History of a Yeti What is a Yeti?
The Yeti is a legendary character. It is a large hairy creature resembling a human or bear that is said to live in the highest parts of the Himalayan mountains. It has enormous sharp teeth with a grayish whitish colored hair. The Abominable Snowman is supposed to be very muscular and weigh between two hundred and four hundred pounds. It averages at about six feet tall. The creature is usually alone. The Yeti eats and attacks anything. This monster can only be seen when it comes down from the mountains into lower elevation and crosses
through the forest into a nearby village. Sometimes the Yeti leaves a footprint in the mountain snow. The creature scares the people living in the village and sometimes kills a yak for food. Different paintings and sculptures of the Yeti can be found in the literature or sacred sites throughout most of the neighbors to the Himalayas. All of the images are similar in a numerous ways. However people who study the Yeti, agree that it can appear in many different forms. The Yeti’s reported areas of occurrence are India, China, Mongolia, Russia, Siberia, Nepal, Tibet, and Bhutan.
Over many centuries there have been plenty of Abominable Snowmen. The search for the Yeti has been going on from 326 B.C. and continues today. The first sighting was in 1832. There has been no evidence to prove that these were real sightings or if they were simply a misidentification. However, in 1986 Anthony Wooldridge was hiking through the mountains and took two pictures of what he believed to be a Yeti. The two pictures were analyzed and was proved to be genuine. This was the first proof of the Yeti. The amount of reports started to increase in the twentieth century. Nobody has been close to a Yeti. Most reports come in the form of footprints being found, pelts offered, shapes seen at a distance, or rarely a face to face encounter. The face to face encounters always occur with locals who stumble into it, never researchers looking for it. Some of the most authentic tracks ever found were photographed by two British mountaineers in 1951. Nobody thought that the footprints were real until in 1953 a hiker found similar footsteps on Mount Everest. Another strange encounter occurred in 1938. A man had encountered near-death while hiking alone in the Himalayas. A nine foot Yeti rescued the hiker named Captain d’Auvergne and nurtured him back to health. There have been several different Abominable Snowman sightings over the last couple of hundred years.