Yeti

As Yeti ( Tib: g.ya ' dred ) or snow man, locally also limited Kangchenjunga Demon, refers to a two-legged, hairy mythical creature of the Himalayas, which was known in Europe in particular through photos of tracks in the snow. The Sherpa are derived the term from Ye = Rock and The = animal. In Tibet, the Yeti is called Migö ( Wild Man ) or transition Mi ( Iceman ). The Lepcha have received many legends about the Yeti and Lomung call him ( mountain spirit ) or Chumung (snow spirit ) where they worship him as God and Lord of all hunting deer.

Description and interpretation

It describes the nature in general than about two to three meters high and over 200 kilograms, with footprints of up to 43 centimeters in length. Lepcha and Tibetan people describe him as a monkey animal, with an egg-shaped, pointed skull and scanty, reddish hair. The footprints in the snow were found several times and by different expeditions to 5000-7000 meters above sea level and tracked over longer distances.

Cryptozoologists - Ivan T. Sanderson in particular - and also some anthropologists, such as George A. Agogino (1921-2000) from the University of Wyoming, observing ( et ) s, however, the assumption plausible that it is the Yetis to members of the relic population of an unknown hominid species is. In science, however, this is a minority opinion. Some zoologists and also the South Tyrolean mountaineer Reinhold Messner in his book Yeti - legend and reality are of the opinion that the yeti with the Tibetan brown bear or Tibetan bear (Ursus arctos pruinosus ) is identical. Thus, in some Himalayan Yeti languages ​​the word for bear. A similar result came in 2003, the Japanese Makoto Nebuka after twelve years of research in the Himalayas.

For the administrative authority of the Siberian Kemerovo Oblast is the existence of the Yeti, their own representation and on the foot from the media reports, meanwhile proved. An international research team has found on an expedition in the Altai Mountains tracks of the people, said the management of the Russian province of Kemerovo in the second week of October with 2011. A " research group" have " footprints, his likely place to sleep and various markings found with which the yeti marks his territory ," it said in a statement published on the website of the province. In one of the footprints, a researcher has even found remains of hair that could possibly come from the Yeti. However, this authority would also boost tourism in the region. And according to zoologists at Oxford University, is at loggerheads with horses and bear hair.

Yeti scalp

In Buddhist Monastery of Khumjung in the Khumbu Nepal, an alleged Yeti scalp be visited. A second scalp is under unclear circumstances of the Monastery of Pangboche (also in the Khumbu ) disappeared. 1960 brought Edmund Hillary and Marlin Perkins from an expedition an alleged Yeti scalp with who turned out to be goat skin in the investigation.