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Yeti scalp

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on December 24, 2009

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Originally published in The Guardian on 23 December 1960:

Sir Edmund Hillary and Mr Desmond Doig, who have been on a yeti-hunting expedition in Nepal, arrived in London by air yesterday with the scalp of what is believed in Khumjung village to be a yeti. With them was Khumjo Chumbi, village headman, who is guardian of the scalp.

Sir Edmund said he would rather withhold his theories until the scalp had been examined by a zoologist, and until French and American experts had completed tests of the hair. But unless “something turned up” concerning the scalp he did not believe in the existence “of a strange new animal.”

Khumjo Chumbi, however, was in no doubt about the scalp’s nature. He said he had heard a yeti crying three times in one day, and his children had seen one. More:

Losing the yeti in forgotten nation of Bhutan

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on August 10, 2008

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Tim Sullivan of Associated Press reports from Signyar, Bhutan:

Sonam Dorji, right, relates a tale of his encounter with an Yeti at the remote village of Signyar in Bhutan. AP photo

A disco in Thimpu, Bhutan: Times are rapidly changing as old beliefs yield to the modern ways of life. AP photo

He remembers the darkness of the pine forest, and the footprints, and his terror when the creature began to howl. He remembers the stories of his childhood, of a beast that stalked the upper reaches of the mountains, and how fear spread through the village every time it was spotted.

In a remote Himalayan kingdom that held out against the modern world for as long as it could, the old man remembers a time when the yeti was a normal part of life.

“The creature has always been out there, and it’s out there still,” says Sonam Dorji, 77, sitting on the pockmarked wooden floor of his small farmhouse. It’s a cold Himalayan morning, and he warms himself beside a wood stove. The smell of burning pine fills the room. “If you travel the ancient trails, even today, there’s a good chance you’ll meet him.”

His son-in-law, listening to the old man’s stories, laughs dismissively from across the room.

Tshering Sithar is 39, a bulldozer operator helping pave the road to this village, which until recently could only be reached on foot.

“What is there to say?” he asks. “There’s nothing out there in the forest. Any educated person today knows this.”

Is the Yeti for real?

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on June 18, 2008

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A British artist has produced what she calls a “photo-fit” of the Yeti based on “potentially explosive” new evidence of the elusive creature’s existence. From The Telegraph:

Wildlife painter Polyanna Pickering was shown what is believed to be a 100-year-old yeti scalp at a remote monastery in the Himalayas.

At least one expert believe it could be the most important proof yet that the giant apelike beast is more than mere folklore.

Ms Pickering was gathering material for a new exhibition in the remote Bhutan region of the Himalayas when she made her chance discovery – with a little help from David Beckham.

She said: “I was told this was from a Migoi – their name for the yeti. All I know is, it was bigger than any human or ape scalp I have ever seen.”

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