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The Riddle of the Abominable Snowman
THE RIDDLE OF
THE
ABOMINABLE
SNOWMAN
By Albert
Maisel
Amid the vast wastlands of the high Himalayas there
walks a giant creature, whose likeness to Man has
puzzled scientists for years. Is it, as some people
think, merely a bear or a monkey - or even just a
fairy tale? Or is it perhaps the long sought
"missing link" between the apes and
Man?
The natives who live in the high, lonely valleys of
the Himalayas call the strange thing by several
names... Yeti, Meti, Shookpa, Mi-go, or
Kang-Mi. The one we hear most of all is of course
"Yeti." They have known. about the Yeti for
hundreds of years, but it was not until 1887 that
the creature was first heard of in the Western
world. Colonel
W. A. Waddell, a British mountaineer was trudging
across a snow-field when he came upon a mystifying
set of tracks. They were like the footprints of a
gigantic man, stalking along where no one would
expect to find a lone human being - least of all
barefoot. Nineteen years later, another explorer
not only saw the Yeti's tracks, he caught a glimpse
of a great, hairy, two-legged creature. It ran away
from him across the snow until it vanished over a
ridge in the
distance.
As time went on more climbers and explorers sighted
the Yeti. Sometimes it would be seen disapearing
into a forest; sometimes walking across a
snowfield, stooping now and then to pull up roots
and shrubs. It became known as the "Abominable
Snowman."
Attacked by a
"Snowman"
In 1948, two Norwegian explorers called Frostis and
Thorberg followed some Yeti footprints in the snow.
Suddenly they found themselves face to face with a
pair of enormous, shaggy-haired, two legged
creatures. Quickly the men tried to lasso one of
the creatures, but the beast attacked Frostis and
savagely mauled his shoulder. Thorberg saved
his friend by firing his rifle and frightening the
Yetis away.
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