The Yeti Discovered

The Yeti Discovered

Considered by many to be the world’s greatest living mountaineer, Reinhold Messner has seen a lot in his life. He’s the first man to have climbed Everest with no oxygen and the only man to have climbed all 14 of the world’s highest peaks. Furthermore, he also claims to have seen a yeti. That’s right. An abominable snowman.

But hold on. This elusive and legendary creature may not be exactly what you think it is. Messner, who has searched for the yeti for 12 years after his first encounter with one, claims the yeti to be nothing more than a Tibetan bear. Even so, to him all the myths surrounding this creature hold true. For example, the reason why there are sometimes only two footprints after a yeti sighting is because, in difficult snow, this bear will put the back foot in the footprint of the front foot.

He says that the reason these myths get started in the first place is because many of the originators live in areas without television or movies. Therefore, they have to create their own stories if they want entertainment. Over years, the more and more these stories get told, and the fact that some of these yetis can actually be hunted down since they truly exist (albeit in bear form), the faith in these myths hold very strong.

Although the lore of these beasts have attracted people from the world over, and even though the truth may be a bit hard to stomach, you have to hand it to a man who went against all the tribal lore, searching for the truth.

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