Yeti Part 1

Astonishing Legends vor 8 Jahren

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On November 8, 1951, noted mountaineer and adventurer Eric
Shipton and Dr. Michael Ward were on an expedition to find an
alternate route to ascend Mount Everest. At approximately
17,500 feet and exploring a glacier near an Everest basecamp they
came across a set of massive footprints that shouldn't have been
there. The only possible known creatures that they thought
could have left such crisp footprints in the snow at that
altitude were humans, bears or yaks, and they didn't look exactly
like any of those to them, but more like a strange unknown
barefooted hominoid. Their Sherpa guides, however, knew
exactly what had left those footprints, the legendary Yeti, known
to the indigenous peoples of the region for at least hundreds of
years, and was both feared and revered. Shipton set the
head of his ice ax next to the track, which measured about a foot
long and 5" wide, and took a picture. This photo, coming
from such a well-regarded explorer, would help to forever leave
an imprint in the collective imagination of the western
world.

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