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| Spunky the Wonder Toad |
 Posted: Mon Aug 11, 2003 5:26 pm |
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Tuesday, August 12, 2003 at 08:00 JST
KATMANDU
"Many people say the Yeti is only a legend while some people believe in
its existence but nobody has been able to prove it," Yoshiteru Takahashi
said.
He believes the mysterious creature, which some people say is half-man,
half-ape, lives in the Dhaulagiri mountain range in the Himalayas.
"I have been fascinated by this creature and came here in 1994 searching
for evidence of its existence in Dhaulagiri but failed to capture it on
film as I had hoped," said Takahashi, who is from Osaka.
But he said he had seen footprints in the snow in 1994 which led him to
believe in the existence of the Yeti, also known as the abominable
snowman.
"I am fully convinced of the existence of the Yeti in the foothills of
Dhaulagiri massif and this time I am going to catch him with my highly
sophisticated six infra-red cameras which will be operational around the
clock.
"Last time, I was able to narrow down the creature's territory and found
several spots where we could set up cameras to film it," he said.
Takahashi, a house-fitter, will leave Katmandu at the weekend and spend
several weeks in the foothills of the Dhaulagiri range, of which the
highest peak is 8,167 meters, with his six-member team trying to capture
the creature on film.
He said he thought there were two types of Yeti.
"The large type of yeti is a kind of Himalayan brown bear and local people
mistook it for the Yeti when they saw it from a distance," he said.
"While the small type is locally know as the 'Miti' and this what we are
looking for," he said, adding it was about 1.5 meters tall and was a kind
of primate. When we successfully prove that the Yeti really lives here in
the Himalayas, the next step will be to protect it. We don't want this
precious creature to die out from the world."
Since the last century, curious westerners have attempted to find the
mysterious creature, among them Edmund Hillary who was the first to
conquer Mt Everest on May 29, 1953.
Some years after, in 1960, the New Zealander took part in a 10-month
expedition to attempt to prove the existence of the Yeti in the Khumbu
Valley, to the south of Everest.
But the most convincing evidence was a scalp brought back from a monastery
in Khumjung, which scientific analysis later proved was a forgery, made
with a piece of a Serow Himalayan goat.
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