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.
Possible Explanations There might not be any evidence that proves that Yeti exist. However, there is no evidence that can prove the Yeti does not exist. The Yeti has many possible different explanations to what it is. Recently scientists have discovered that the Yeti could be a very rare subspecies of bear using the science of DNA. A professor from Norway, named Professor Sykes, found a one hundred percent match to an ancient polar bear jawbone found in Svalbard. A mountaineer named Reinhold Messner backed up the proof of Professor Sykes. This find was very exciting and extremely unexpected. This ancient species is possibly a cross between a brown and polar bear. Another possible explanation for the massive footprints found in the snow could be the result of evaporation and melting. The melting and evaporation could cause the footprints to stretch out and seem larger than they actually were at one point.
The Yeti used in Culture The Yeti is a big part of the Sherpas. The Sherpas are a group of people that live in a national park surrounding Mount Everest. An interesting part of the Sherpas folklore is the Yeti, or as they know it as the Abominable Snowman. They have many different tales describing the Abominable Snowman and their actions. In one tale, Yetis were far more populated and they attacked and raided many of the local villages. The wisest men in these villages came up with a plan to try to eliminate all of the Abominable Snowmen. The next day they brought many weapons and beer to a pasture. The villagers pretended to get drunk and they fought each other. They left the remaining beer and weapons in the pasture. The Yetis had been hiding and watching them, and they came down to the pasture as soon as all of the people left. They drank the remaining beer and fought each other. Most of the Yetis died. However the survivors swore revenge on the humans and fled back to their caves. The few Abominable snowmen hid so that nobody could find them and they occasionally come out of their hiding spots. This is the Sherpas way of saying why the Yetis are rarely seen. The Yeti is very important to the Sherpas culture and way of life. They constantly use the Abominable Snowmen in their folklore.
The Yeti Around the World The Yeti is known all around the world except with a different name and found in a different place. There is Bigfoot, Sasquatch, Yowie, Almas, Skunk Ape, Grassman, Wendigo, Orang Pendek, Mapinguari, Yeren and a couple others that are not very commonly known. They are all very similar and commonly known in their area. The Sasquatch and Bigfoot are two names that are interchangeable. It is found in North America, and many people have tried to find it. The Yowie is found in Australia and is said to be like a strange human. The Almas is found mainly in Mongolia and parts of Eastern Europe and is supposedly more human than ape-like. The Skunk Ape is practically the Bigfoot of Florida. The Grassman is similar to the Skunk Ape except in the state of Ohio. The Wendigo is found in the woods of Canada and can transform into a human, but has very harsh and evil intentions. Orang Pendek is from Sumatra and is not very tall. The Mapinguari is from the jungles of South America and relates to a giant ground sloth. The Yeren is found in China and is very similar to Bigfoot. There are many different versions of the Yeti in almost every continent.
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