News reports published today inform that the Indian Army has found footprints of the mythical Yeti in the snow.
The Indian Army communicated their finding in a Tweet (read it here) has some photos and the following text:
" For the first time, an #IndianArmy Moutaineering Expedition Team has sited Mysterious Footprints of mythical beast 'Yeti' measuring 32x15 inches close to Makalu Base Camp on 09 April 2019. This elusive snowman has only been sighted at Makalu-Barun National Park in the past."
Photo taken by the Indian Army on April 9, 2019, Indian men measure large foot prints in the snow, sighted by the Indian Army, near the Makalu Base Camp in the North-Eastern Himalayas. (HANDOUT / AFP/Getty Images).
This is a video from The Economic Times.
It is probably the tracks of some bear or snow leopard.
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Prints in the snow are not the best evidence.
ReplyDeleteBut prints in the autumn silt of a well used, albiet remote, 4wd trail in the central Sierra Nevada mountains of California are.
Austin, a friend and I encountered a freshly laid trackway, some 25 years ago.
And by fresh I mean within minutes of the tracks being laid down.
A group of friends and I were on a 60 mile mtb ride from Dinkey Creek Ca to the Swamp Lake 4wd trail.
It was late Sept. and we got an early,6am, start for the grueling ride,depending on conditions the loop can take a jeep 2-3 days to complete as trail as it summits 2 mtns and traverses the swampy apline valleys between.
Temps when we started were in the 30-32°F range at the bottom of the hill. By 8:30-9:00 am we were on the first big climb of the trail itself.
One group of 3 was about a mile ahead as Paul and I made our way up the steep trail at 5-6mph.
As I was climbing I could hear a very very large animal crashing through the brush, down a ravine on the right side of trail.
I didn't think anything beyond "It's kinda late for cattle up here" at +8000'.
A couple minutes later, as I rounded a bend, I could see Paul, off his bike looking at something in the trail. I figured he had dropped something or was actually failing, because that section was very steep, we were down to 3-4 mph, so it took a bit to reach Paul.
As I approached Paul says, "Dude, you got to look at this" as he pointed to something in the trail.
What he was looking at was a set of bare foot prints crossing the trail.
They were 14"-16" long and came down off the hill, crossed the road and went down into the ravine I had just heard the movement in.
The super fine silt of the trail preserved phenomenal detail.
The foot was broad, almost rectangular with little taper to the heel. The toes were nearly straight across and extremly splayed, it had almost no arch, but a defined ball area that basically extended across the foot.
You could see the lines and cracks in the bottom of the foot.
And the tracks were on top of the bicycle tire tracks of our friends.
It came off the hill took two steps, stopped and shuffled around a little in the middle of the trail before moving into the ravine.
We discussed a little before continuing, over the next couple miles the trackway crossed trail several more times as it switchbacked up the mountain.
We got to a place that flattened out and were checking the track out again, when a group of bear hunters came down the trail in a jeep from the top.
They pulled off and asked what we were looking at, I replied, "a big bare footprint", "Oh yah? a big bear footprint?"
"No, A BIG BARE FOOTPRINT" as two approached.
The driver looked down and said,"That's no bear footprint" and motioned to the other two," you guys got to see this".
A couple of the guys were clearly shaken and moved off and talked in hushed tones.
The driver and I discussed the situation and I mentioned going down the hill to the nearest town, Shaver Lake, to get some plaster to make a cast, and I could be back in 4 hrs.
He said they had just come from Swamp Lake, and they had left at dawn to get ahead of the 200 jeeps on a poker run and we weren't going to get a cast.
Sure enough 20 min later the first of the jeeps started showing up.
A few years later I found out there were 3 actual sighting, within a 5 mile radius over the next month.