The Yeti is a legendary creature that lives in the Himalayas. The mystery of the Yeti is one that has fascinated many for decades.Nepalese and Tibetans claims it’s a spirit. Many Western hikers claim to have had encounters with the Yeti. They describe it as Ape like and standing erect. There are many theories. Some say it’s an Ape. Others claim it’s a hallucination. The reality is that it’s spotted in a very remote and inhospitable area. It could possibly be some type of Ape like creature. It’s a mystery that hasn’t been solved.
The Himalaya Mountains, the highest range on Earth, have been referred to as the “roof of the world.” If that is so, there is a mystery called the Yeti in our attic. In Tibetan the word means “magical creature” and truly it is a seemingly supernatural enigma in the shape of a hairy, biped creature that resembles a giant ape.
The Himalayas lie on the border between India, Nepal, and Tibet (now part of China). They are remote and forbidding. Large stretches around these rough valleys and peaks are uninhabited. The tallest mountain in the world, Everest, 29,028 feet high, lies half in Nepal, half in China. It is from Nepal, though, that most attempts to climb Everest, and the surrounding mountains, are made.
In Katmandu, the capitol of Nepal, a visitor finds himself immersed in the Yeti legend. He is a commercial money maker for the tourist industry (there’s even a Hotel named the “Yak and the Yeti”) as well as legend, religion and fantasy to some of the Neplaese people.
The first reliable report of the Yeti appeared in 1925 when a Greek photographer, N. A. Tombazi, working as a member of a British geological expedition in the Himalayas, was shown a creature moving in the distance across some lower slopes. The creature was almost a thousand feet away in a narea with an altitude of around 15,000 feet.
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The mystery of the Yeti may never be solved. Or maybe one day, there will be determinative proof that the Yeti exists. Maybe it’s just a hallucination. What is strange is that legends of this creature have been around for centuries. It’s possible there’s something to this.
The Truth is out there!
