Locals claimed that the Pangboche Monastery"
"During this expedition, they went to this monastery,"
"and took a hair sample from the alleged Yeti's skull."
"In total, 7 expeditions came across such footprints in 1937."
"Of them, two expeditions,"
"Claimed to have see a Yeti."
"Stories about Yeti are actually thousands of years old."
"Some are even from Pre-Buddhist era passed down for generations."
"One of the reasons why these regulations were formed was"
"the Nepali and American governments believed that"
"Yeti could be real."
"After getting back to America, Tom Slick said that"
"there might be three types of Yetis."
"One of them Supernatural,"
"and two real."
"He believed that there was no such creature."
"Then, an evening in 1986,"
"something shook his belief."
Hello, friends!
In 2008,
in Arunachal Pradesh, at a height of 12,000 feet,
a military camp and road was being built for the Indian Army.
A worker working there,
walked to the local market.
After buying what he needed, he started
going back up to the military camp before dark.
Many hours pass but he doesn't reach the military camp.
There was no sign of him the whole night.
The next day, a local man passes by on the same path with his horse.
He spots the lost worker beside the road.
He was sitting awkwardly.
The local thought that the worker was perhaps drunk.
He called out to the worker but he didn't respond.
Eventually when he approached him,
he noticed that
the worker's neck was broken
and he wasn't breathing.
He was dead.
His phone and money were on the ground near him.
This couldn't have been a robbery or a mugging,
because his valuables were lying there.
Had this been a mugging,
they wouldn't have left them behind.
It didn't seem like his neck was broken due to an accident.
Had there been an accident, his body would've been on the ground.
But his body was propped up awkwardly.
There were no other marks on his body.
Except his broken neck.
Later, when doctors saw the corpse,
they said that the damage to the neck,
cannot be easily caused by a human.
Because it would require a lot of force It
It couldn't have been caused by a wild animal,
because there were no claw marks on the corpse.
There were no wounds or bleeding,
only the broken neck
which led to his death.
Locals claim that
the police found a hair on the corpse.
This strand of hair was checked,
it belonged to neither a human nor an animal.
The police found a footprint too,
which made the locals say
that it was the footprint of the Yeti.
Locals claim that the place where this road was being built,
Yeti used to frequent this area.
They believed that the worker was killed by a Yeti.
Fast forward 11 years from this incident
29th April, 2019.
The Indian Army tweets from its Twitter handle.
For the first time, an Indian Army mountaineering expedition team
claimed to have seen the footprints of the mythical beast, Yeti.
These were 32 inches long and 15 inches wide.
On 9th April 2019,
these were seen near the Makalu Base Camp in Nepal.
Before this, Yeti had only been seen in the Makalu Barun National Park.
The Indian Army said that the evidence had been photographed
and handed over to subject matter experts for scientific evaluation.
Is it real?
You must have come across mentions of Yeti on social media.
But is there any scientific proof of Yeti's existence?
Is it really a mystical beast?
Or just a misunderstood animal?
Friends, let's find out the truth behind this mysterious Yeti in this video.
"Yeti"
"You've seen Yeti's footprint."
"The huge, hairy monster has been spotted
walking across Asian mountains,
from China to the Himalayas."
"Incredible claim by a respected Oxford researcher,
he says he has proof that the Yeti
the abominable snowman of the Himalayas
is, in fact, real."
The most famous story regarding Yeti is from 1951.
British Mountaineer Eric Shipton
and with him, surgeon Michael Ward
were looking for an alternative way to climb Mount Everest.
They spotted footprints amidst the snow at Menlung glacier.
13 inches long and 8 inches wide.
They looked similar to human feet
but they were much bigger.
Eric did not have any equipment to measure the footprint.
So he placed his axe beside it
and took these pictures.
The photos became so popular
that they were published in newspapers and magazines all over the world.
People all over the world were fascinated by it
and it was seen as strong evidence of Yeti being real.
After these pictures were published,
it set off a race.
People from all over the world, from different countries,
come to Himalayan mountains looking for Yeti.
Hoping to be the first person to discover Yeti.
"The search has taken him to some of the
most spectacular scenic areas of the world."
"To the breathtaking distances of natural beauty."
But what does Yeti look like?
Those who have claimed to have seen Yeti,
have some common features in their descriptions.
According to them, it is a big ape-like creature,
and is bigger than humans.
It has long arms,
and a strong chest and abdomen.
They claim that it's 7-8 feet tall.
And weighs around 90-180 kg.
Bhutanese people told BBC that,
apart from its face,
the rest of its body is covered with long reddish-brown or grey-black fur.
And that it cannot twist its body.
It cannot look back.
It walks upright on its two legs.
And in the jungle, it uses its hands and legs to swing from one tree to another.
According to them, it carries a big stone in its hand,
and used it as a weapon.
Bhutanese people who believe that Yeti exists say that
Yetis are usually seen alone or in pairs.
And are rarely seen in groups.
They communicate with each other by whistling.
And they emit a terrible smell.
Sometimes they might even smile or make strange sounds.
They are seen as harbingers of bad times and death.
According to the stories,
Yeti is found in the Himalayan mountains in India, Bhutan, Nepal, and Tibet.
Especially in Nepal and Tibet.
It lives in high snowy areas.
Now, interestingly,
we see Yeti being mentioned even in 800-years-old ancient legends.
And even in the folklores of the Tibetian ethnic group, Sherpas.
In fact, the word Yeti,
originates from the Tibetan language.
The word 'Yeti' comes from the Sherpa word, Yeh + Teh,
it means 'cliff-dwelling bear.'
A bear that lives among the rocks.
Mani Kabum, a religious text from 12th century Tibet,
talks about the connection between humans and Yetis.
It also mentions a mythological story.
According to this story, there was a Bodhisattva monkey,
sent by God to meditate in Tibet.
While he was meditating,
a rock-orgress, Sinmo, saw him.
She was an incarnation of a Buddhist deity.
She asked the monkey to marry her.
But the monkey told her that he wanted to remain celibate.
The ogress then told him that if he doesn't marry her,
she will marry a demon.
And give birth to many monsters
who will destroy everything.
Eventually, the monkey married the orgress.
And they had six monkey-human children.
After that, for generations,
their lineage kept evolving,
and eventually humans were born.
But those from the previous generations weren't fully humans
and one of these generations was that of the Yetis.
According to this story, the ancestors of Yeti and humans are the same,
but the Yeti could not fully evolve into being a human.
Stories about Yeti go back thousands of years.
Some are even from the pre-Buddhist era.
In the Himalayas, some societies and religions
used to worship this Glacier Being.
In 1978, many scholars jointly published the book
'Himalayan Anthropology' on the history of the Himalayas.
According to this book, Yeti's parts have continued
being used in Tibetan religious and magical rituals.
This book mentions several interesting historical facts.
For example, centuries ago,
stories about Yeti were so famous that
when Alexander the Great conquered parts of India in 326 BC,
he asked to see a Yeti.
But the locals refused to let him see it
saying that Yetis can survive only on high mountains.
So, it cannot be brought to lower altitudes.
In modern times,
the first case of spotting a creature like a Yeti was in 1832.
British naturalist Brian Hodgson
in his article in the Journal of Asiatic Society of Bengal mentioned that
he came across a giant non-human creature
which was covered with long black fur from head to toe
but ran away just as he was discovered.
In his article, he called it an orangutan.
Orangutan is an actual ape that exists today.
But it isn't found in India.
It's a native animal of Indonesia and Malaysia.
After this, in 1889,
when British Army Physician Major LA Waddell went to Himalayan glaciers to hunt,
he saw some footprints there.
These footprints were going up to the glacier
and disappeared at the peak.
They looked to be of a hominid species like monkeys or humans.
We have discussed about Hominoids and Hominids in detail in this video.
We discussed the entire ancestry of humans, monkeys, and apes.
Similarly, in 1921, a climber returning from an expedition to the Mount Everest,
Charles Howard-Bury and his team
told the journalist of the English newspaper The Statesman
that they had seen some huge footprints.
The local guides told them that the footprints were of Metoh Kangmi.
This word means Man-Bear Snow-Man.
But the journalist had wrongly translated the word Metoh.
Instead of 'Man-Bear' he translated it as 'Filthy.'
Later, when this article was published,
'Filthy' was changed to 'Abominable'
and so the term 'Abominable Snowman' was coined.
It's still used as a synonym for Yeti.
By 1937,
there were frequent discoveries related to Yeti.
Explorer HW Tilman saw Yeti's footprints on Zemu Glacier.
This year, at the altitude of 19,000 feet on Zemu Glacier,
British Army Officer John Hunt saw Yet's footprints too.
In the year 1937,
in total, 7 expeditions had encountered such footprints.
And 2 of these expeditions,
claimed to have seen Yeti.
In their reports, local hunters, guides, and Sherpas
claimed that Tibetan monasteries have Yeti's hands and skull.
This enflamed the interest among the westerners.
But in the 1930s,
no western foreigner was allowed to enter Nepal.
Only some British military officials and diplomats were allowed restricted entry.
This was because the ruling dynasty in Nepal back then,
the Rana dynasty,
did not want to see Western influence in Nepal.
But in 1951, the politics in Nepal changed.
After this, foreigners could visit easily.
And so we get to this famous encounter by Eric Shipton only in 1951.
He took this picture of Yeti's footprints
and once again Yeti became a popular topic all over the world.
It was only after this photo that
many people from all over the world went to Nepal to look for Yeti.
In 1953, the British newspaper Daily Mail sent its expedition.
It included many journalists and mountaineers.
This expedition cost $1.35 million in today's money.
Locals claimed that Pangboche Monastery had Yeti's skull.
During this expedition,
they went to this monastery and took a hair sample from Yeti's skull.
When it was sent for analysis,
the experts claims that it belonged to neither a human nor an animal
and nor was it hair.
"The testing concluded
that the hair in the Yeti's scalp,
did not belong to an unknown species of a cryptic creature."
Then, a famous American oilman and millionaire, Tom Slick,
undertook multiple expeditions in search of Yeti.
In 1957, 1958, and 1959,
he searched for Yeti in valleys of East Nepal including the Arun Valley.
In the first expedition, he came across 3 Yeti footprints and strands of hair.
On his second expedition, bloodhounds were also used,
that were trained on mountain lions and bears.
He went to four monasteries
and studied the two skulls and mummified hands that were said to be of Yeti.
His research on this lasted several months.
And after returning to America,
Tom Slick said that there might be three types of Yeti.
One of them Supernatural,
and the others real.
He said that one of the real Yetis matched
the description based on Eric Shipton's photo.
Tom Slick said that he was trying to define
the relation between the three types of Yetis
but before he could present his findings to the world,
he died in an airplane crash.
*The mystery died with him*
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Now, let's back to our topic.
This was the peak of Yeti's hype.
Several films were made on Yeti.
Like, The Snow Creature in 1954,
The Abominable Snowman in 1957,
apart from this, during 1958-59
in the comic Adventures of Tintin, Tintin came across a Yeti.
Tintin in Tibet.
This comic book is still popular.
Because of these films, footprints, and eyewitness accounts,
Yeti's myth kept growing stronger.
More and more people wanted to go look for Yeti.
Seeing this craze, in 1959,
the US and Nepal governments
came together to make some regulations.
There were three main points.
First, Nepal's government wanted to make some money from this.
They charged a Royalty Fee of 5000 Indian Rupees
for a permit to look for Yeti.
Second, hunting Yeti was banned.
Killing it as an act of self-defence was excusable,
but they weren't allowed to actively hunt it.
Nepal's government allowed them to catch Yeti alive.
But any captured Yeti had to be surrendered to Nepal's government.
Third, all reports related to Yeti's existence was
supposed to be given to Nepal's government first.
And the government's permission was mandatory
before handing those over to the press.
Strong regulations indeed.
But the most amazing thing was that
the Nepal government wasn't actually sure
whether Yeti actually exists or not.
One of the reasons for making these regulations was that
the Nepali and American governments thought that the Yeti could be real.
Even after passing these government regulations,
many people went to Nepal and carried out numerous expeditions.
But there were three such explorers
who deserve to be mentioned.
These men tried their best to discover the truth about Yeti.
First was Irish American explorer Peter Byrne.
In his search for Yeti, he was a part of 5 expeditions,
and spent a total of 38 months in the Himalayas.
During these expeditions,
he went to the Pangboche Buddhist Monastery too,
located at an altitude of 13,000 feet
that claims to have the remains of Yeti's hands and skull.
For research, he asked for the Yeti's hand from the Lamas at the monastery.
But his request was refused.
Saying that doing so would bring bad luck to the monastery.
Peter tried his best to convince the Lamas
and in exchange for a donation, he finally got
a finger from the remains of 'Yeti's hand.'
He came to India with this finger
and with the help of his friend, actor James Stewart he smuggled it into London.
James Stewart's wife Gloria
hid this finger in her lingerie bag and carried it to London.
In London, Professor William Osman Hill analysed this finger
and found that it wasn't a Yeti's finger
it was a human's.
The second explorer was Italy's legendary climber, Reinhold Messner.
He is considered to be the World's Greatest Mountaineer Alive.
Before 1986,
in his books, Reinhold denied Yeti's existence calling it nonsensical.
He didn't believe that any such creature existed.
But one evening in 1986,
something happened that changed his belief.
He was following an old Tibetian path used by sherpas,
and got lost.
There he came across a big and dark creature.
He saw it standing upright
and running faster than humans.
And jumping from one tree to another.
Reinhold says that at one point, it was only 10 steps away from him.
It stood there unmoving,
before suddenly disappearing.
And it was about 7 feet tall.
And friends, after this encounter,
Reinhold became obsessed with Yeti.
The yeti whose existence he used to deny,
he spent 12 years looking for it.
And what was his conclusion?
He said that there are no Yetis.
There are no human-like, abominable snowmen living in the mountains.
He said that Yeti is nothing but
a Himalayan brown bear.
Before talking further about this,
let's talk about the third explorer.
Daniel C. Taylor.
This American man wrote the book, 'Yeti: The Ecology of a Mystery.'
He too spent many years of his life looking for Yeti.
He was specially focused on Nepal's Barun valley.
It has a dense forest and gets a lot of rain.
This forest is so dense that
only a few people have entered it.
Nepal's king advised Daniel Taylor that
if he wants to find Yeti
the he should search this forest.
When he got there, he saw fresh footprints.
These footprints convinced him that
he had found a Yeti.
But alas, these weren't Yeti's footprints
they belonged to a bear,
a tree bear.
During their research, he found that
these footprints had nails marks too.
Hominoids do not have such nails.
So he concluded that these footprints had to belong to an animal.
To find out which animal it was,
he started looking for nests,
that were suspected to be Yeti's lair.
There, he found a hair strand,
and running a DNA analysis of it revealed the entire truth.
This hair belonged to a special species of bear,
known as the Rukh Bhaalu in Nepali,
and as Tree Bear in English.
He explained this famous photo taken by Eric Shipton in 1951.
He said that while walking, these bears
always place their hind legs on the footprints of the front legs.
This makes it look like
the animal that left those footprints
must have walked on two legs instead of four.
When the front legs leave footprints on the ground,
it leaves nail marks too.
And when the hind legs step on these footprints,
there are no nail marks.
Because the snow or mud gets pressed enough
for the nail marks to be erased.
And often when the hind feet overlap with the front feet,
it's not a complete overlap.
And so the size of these combined footprints looks bigger.
So these footprints can look to be about 12 inches long.
He said that if you look at the photos of Yeti's footprints carefully,
you will notice the nail marks left by the hind feet
at the centre of the photo.
So, this photo of Yeti's footprint that we have here
is actually, a combination of the footprints
left by a bear's front and hind feet.
Daniel Taylor said that a bear's anatomy explains these footprints much better.
Bear cubs often squeeze their paws while walking,
especially when they climb trees to look for food.
So it leaves a thumb-like mark in the snow,
which makes it look like a human footprint.
He said that
when he asked the Royal Geographical Society for
the photos taken by Eric Shepton of Yeti's footprints,
they sent two photos.
In the second photo, it is clearly evident that
these are bear footprints,
but the second photo did not go viral.
Only the first photo was published in the newspapers
and talked about in the media.
In 1939, sponsored by the Nazi Party of Germany for a secret
mission to Tibet, Zoologist Ernst Schafer came to the conclusion.
Yeti does not exist.
When the locals told him that a Yeti lived in the mountains,
he went up the mountain with his gun and shot him.
According to Ernst Schafer, the beast that was assumed to be Yeti by the locals,
was actually a Tibetan bear.
In 1992, before his death,
he wrote a letter to Reinhold to tell him this.
The first person to climb Mount Everest, Edmund Hillary,
spent months looking for Yeti.
And finally, came to the same conclusion.
Yeti does not actually exist.
He said that Yeti is just a myth,
born out of people's superstitions.
There have been some recent research studies on Yetis
like this study from 2014 at Oxford University.
A geneticist named Bryan Sykes
tested the DNA of more than 30 hair samples from different areas of the Himalayas.
All of them were claimed to be from Yeti.
Except two of them,
all other samples were of animals like horses or bears.
The two remaining samples did not completely match any known species.
They might be from a species of animal,
that hasn't been discovered yet.
But when the data was rechecked by other scientists they found that
Bryan had made a mistake in analysing these two samples.
These two samples were from a known species too.
A rare sub-species of the Himalayan brown bear.
There was another research in 2017 at a university in New York.
That too reached the same conclusion.
They conducted DNA analysis of more than 9 alleged samples from Yeti.
Not only hair but they analysed bones and teeth too.
It found that 8 samples were either from Asian black bears,
Himalayan brown bears or Tibetan brown bears,
and one of the samples was from a dog.
But what about the story from the beginning of this video?
The murder in Arunachal Pradesh.
After hearing this story, journalists from the BBC Radio
Andrew Benfield and Richard Horsey
went there and tried to find out
whether this worker was really killed by a Yeti.
When they looked at the police FIR they found that
it said that the police did not know how the worker died.
"So it references a dead body that's been found.
It says that the body has been identified as a man,
who was working as a labourer.
It says that the cause of death is not known."
But this report didn't mention Yeti or its footprints.
"No mention of a Yeti."
He found the doctor who had tested the strand of hair
and claimed that it wasn't from a human or an animal.
When he tested the hair,
he found out that it wasn't a strand of hair.
It was actually from a tree.
"So we took it and sent it for investigation
but they said that it's not from any biological species.
It's not hair.
So it maybe a part of some plant,
or leaf or something maybe.
But not hair."
People suspected that a Yeti must have killed the worker.
And when this rumour spread,
people started to adding to the rumours.
Today, there is no mystery anymore.
We don't hear about Yeti sightings any more.
Think about it,
we live in the era of smartphones.
Over the last 10-15 years,
almost every person has a smartphone,
every person is carrying a camera.
So many people live in Tibet, Nepal, and the Himalayas.
Had there really being something like a Yeti,
we would have gotten at least one photograph.
People's belief in supernatural and mythological beings like a Yeti,
is often shaped by society and culture.
People believe in such things because they've
been told such stories since their childhoods.
These stories are repeated by people all around them.
Because they believed in it since their childhoods and the societal pressure,
it becomes difficult for them to refute it once they grow up.
Another reason for these mysteries is the fascination.
In a way, Yeti represents an idea.
Escaping modern society,
and living with nature,
being truly free.
In today's boring, corporate, consumerist world,
such stories help shape our desire, curiosity, and fascination.
But do you know what?
If you want to nurture your fascination and curiosity,
you don't need to believe in such made-up stories.
Because there are better things in our real world.
The Himalayan mountains where people might still be looking for Yeti,
house the snow leopards.
Today, there are only around 4,000 snow leopards left.
And they are endangered due to climate change.
We haven't run out of the possibilities our world has to offer.
Experts estimate that
of all the species existing on Earth right now,
scientists have been able to document only 10-20% of them.
Even now, each year, so many new species of plants and animals are discovered.
In 2020, in the dense forests of Myanmar,
scientists discovered a new species of monkey.
Popa Langur, look at the picture,
it looks like it is wearing glasses.
This species has existed for 1 million years
but we found out about it only 4 years ago.
Their total population is fewer than 200.
It was declared critically endangered upon discovery.
Last year, in 2023,
on the second-highest peak of Angola.
scientists discovered this new species of lizards that have no legs.
These lizards are called Skinks
because it looks like a snake.
It can move its eyelids
unlike a snake.
In 2024, in the midnight zone of the ocean,
3,300 to 13,000 feet below the surface,
the area of the ocean where even sunlight cannot reach,
there, scientists discovered this new creature,
Glowing Mystery Mollusk.
Its body is transparent.
And can become invisible in water.
But its organs are visible.
And it can glow like a bulb at will.
Every year, numerous new animal species are discovered in the ocean.
"Biologists have found a wealth of new species."
"New glowing species discovered in the deep sea."
"Sea expedition reveals over 100 new species."
And the animal that can be called the closest to the Yeti,
was this, Gigantopithecus.
This 10-feet-tall animal
looks exactly like how Yetis are described.
It was around 10 feet tall.
It was an ape.
Scientists say it lived from 2 million years ago to 200,000 years ago.
It must have weighed around 200-300 kg.
And its body used to be covered with thick fur.
It might have walked on two legs
and look at its size compared to humans.
Since its fossils have been found close to the Himalayan mountains,
could it be possible that 200,000 years ago,
the humans who lived there,
saw this animal,
interacted with it,
and passed on the stories of this animal generation to generation.
And it is those stories that
were modified later on to become Yeti's folktale in Tibet.
What do you think, friends?
Let me known in the comments below.
Finally, I'd like to share this quote with you.
"We Always Strive For What We Cannot Have"
"And In Doing So"
"Neglect The Treasures Already In Our Grasp."
It's human nature to chase the things
that we don't have.
But when we do this,
we tend to forget the treasures we already have.
So, instead of stories about the Yeti,
we need to focus on the stories of those species
that we have around us.
Worrying about them,
protecting them,
ensuring that we don't lose them.
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