The Sherpa and the Snowman

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Mary Quant Immortalised by fashion iconography as the originator of the mini skirt, London designer Mary Quant was born on 11 February 1934… In 1832, James Prinsep's Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal published trekker B. H. Hodgson's account of his experiences in northern Nepal. His local guides spotted a tall bipedal creature covered with long dark hair, which seemed to flee in fear. Hodgson concluded it was an orangutan. The term "abominable snowman" originated in a mistranslation of the name meh-teh in 1921. During an expedition to Everest in that year, Sherpa guides working for Lieutenant Colonel C. K. Howard-Bury identified some large footprints as those of a "metoh-kangmi," as Howard-Bury wrote it. This was composed of two Sherpa words, "meh-teh" ("manlike thing that is not a man" or "man-sized wild creature") and "kang-mi," ("snow creature") and was only a generic term. When journalist Henry Newman wrote up the story for the Calcutta Statesman, he rendered the name "metch kangmi" and stated that it was a Tibetan word meaning "abominable snowman" in reference to the creature's purported strong smell. [1] The Chinese term for the Himalayan wildman is also "snowman" ( xueren). [7] The term is not very widely used within cryptozoology due to its connotations; Loren Coleman refers to it as an " unfortunate appellation". [1] In an ironic refutation of the vicious image created by the name and the creature's depiction in popular culture, Bernard Heuvelmans' unpublished book on the yeti was to be entitled in English The Not So Abominable Snowman. Related: Research Group Believe They Photographed Bigfoot In North Carolina Other Names and The Origin of the Term "Abominable Snowman"

The use of "Abominable Snowman" began when Henry Newman, a longtime contributor to The Statesman in Calcutta, writing under the pen name "Kim", [9] interviewed the porters of the "Everest Reconnaissance expedition" on their return to Darjeeling. [23] [26] [27] Newman mistranslated the word "metoh" as "filthy", substituting the term "abominable", perhaps out of artistic licence. [28] As author Bill Tilman recounts, "[Newman] wrote long after in a letter to The Times: The whole story seemed such a joyous creation I sent it to one or two newspapers". [23] History and sightings Pre-19th centuryThe smaller type, sometimes called the "little yeti," is the teh-ima, and is usually said to be just 3' to 4' 6'' in height, with reddish-grey hair and a pointed, sloping head. They are said to inhabit warmer habitats than the other yetis, forested mountain valleys below the snow line in Nepal, Bhutan, Tibet, and Sikkim, [2] where they feed on small animals. [1] It has been proposed that the teh-imah is simply a juvenile or female meh-teh, and that Yeti sightings above the snowline are actually transient animals traveling between valleys. [9] In 2011, the finger recovered by Peter Byrne was located in W.C. Osman Hill's collection in a box labeled "Yeti Finger". DNA tests showed conclusively that the Pangboche hand came from a human, not an unknown animal. [11] However, this DNA was later found to be that of Peter Byrne himself, not that of the finger. This is probably due to contamination when he took it from the monastery [12]. From the archive: Yeti Scalp (They Say It's 240 Years Old) Is Here – by Air". The Guardian. 22 December 2009 [23 December 1960] . Retrieved 12 March 2019. Coleman, Loren & Clark, Jerome (1999) Cryptozoology A to Z: The Encyclopedia of Loch Monsters, Sasquatch, Chupacabras, and Other Authentic Mysteries of Nature, Simon & Schuster, ISBN 978-0684856025

This isn't the only book I have read about Yeti. Reinhold Messner has also written a book My Quest for the Yeti: Confronting the Himalayas' Deepest Mystery (in 1998, much more recently that this one) although I enjoyed this one more. Charles Stonor's book was published in 1955. a b c d Swan, Lawrence W. (18 April 1958). "Abominable Snowman". Science. 127 (3303): 882–84. Bibcode: 1958Sci...127..882S. doi: 10.1126/science.127.3303.882-b. PMID 17733822. S2CID 5372649. They went on to say that the evidence has been photographed and handed over for scientific evaluation. Schmalzer, Sigrid (2008) The People's Peking Man: Popular Science and Human Identity in Twentieth-century China, The University of Chicago Press, p. 220, ISBN 978-0-226-73859-8In Russian folklore, the Chuchuna is an entity said to dwell in Siberia. It has been described as six to seven feet tall and covered with dark hair. [ citation needed] According to the native accounts from the nomadic Yakut and Tungus tribes, it is a well built, Neanderthal-like man wearing pelts and bearing a white patch of fur on its forearms. It is said to occasionally consume human flesh, unlike their close cousins, the Almastis. Some witnesses reported seeing a tail on the creature's corpse. It is described as being roughly six to seven feet tall. [ citation needed] There are additional tales of large, reclusive, bipedal creatures worldwide, notably including both " Bigfoot" and the "Abominable Snowman." There are a few things to consider, which are spelled out by this book. I have paraphrased, so don't quote me on the exact accuracy below! A Guide to Deciphering the Differences Between a Yeti, Sasquatch, Bigfoot and More". newsweek.com. Newsweek. 19 December 2015 . Retrieved 19 April 2022. Yourghusband, Francis; Collie, H. Norman & Gatine, A. (February 1922). "Mount Everest" The reconnaissance: Discussion". The Geographical World Journal. 59 (2): 109–12. doi: 10.2307/1781388. JSTOR 1781388.

Siiger, H. (1978). "The Abominable Snowman". In Fisher, James F. (ed.). Himalayan anthropology: the Indo-Tibetan interface. Walter de Gruyter. p.423. ISBN 9789027977007. Loxton, Daniel; Prothero, Donald R. (2013). Abominable Science!: Origins of the Yeti, Nessie, and Other Famous Cryptids. New York: Columbia University Press. p.102. ISBN 978-0-231-52681-4. On September 22, 1921, Colonel Charles Howard-Bury set off to climb the Lahkpa pass in the early morning. During the trek they encountered a set of bizarre footprints that the porters of the expedition claimed was the trail of a "wild man", the word for which Howard-Bury rendered as " Metohkangmi", which was eventually mistranslated as " Abominable Snowman" by journalist Henry Newell. The term is actually Me-Teh Kang-Mi, translating to Man-bear Snow-Creature. Howard-Bury thought the prints were made by a loping wolf and had been distorted by melting. [14] 1925 [ ] The author is at pains to point out that at no time during his time there, did any of the Sherpa look for a reward, or to benefit in any way from information provided. Many were reluctant to discuss their experiences. According to the Sherpa, the Abominable Snowman towered over eight feet tall and had been encountered repeatedly by herdsmen who tended their grazing animals in the lower ranges that surround the world’s highest peak, Mount Everest. A drawing of the Yeti even appeared in an 18th-century book illustrating the wildlife of Tibet.

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In 1970, British mountaineer Don Whillans claimed to have witnessed a creature when scaling Annapurna. [53] He reported that he once saw it moving on all fours. [54]

Bun manchi, chemo, chemogah, chemong, chomo, dremo, dremong, dzu-teh, meh-teh, metoh kangmi, mi-goi, mi-rgod, teh-lma, xueren Kirtley, Bacil F. (April 1964). "Unknown Hominids and New World legends". Western Folklore. 23 (1304): 77–90. doi: 10.2307/1498256. JSTOR 1498256.

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Lak, Daniel (26 September 2003). "Yeti's 'non-existence' hard to bear". BBC News . Retrieved 27 January 2012. The Abominable Snowman is known by many names by the peoples in the Himalayas here are some of them.