Can You See The Yeti's Footprint ? Traditional Cache
Can You See The Yeti's Footprint ?
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The cache is laid just off the
footpath on the way to Nick Pot.
Its been said That a Yeti has been
seen in these parts footprints have been found hear to this site.
Can you find one please upload a photo if you do.
A team of Japanese climbers claimed
they have found the footprints of the legendary abominable snowman
in the folds of the eastern Dale's in Yorkshire.
An eight-member team claimed the
footprints of the snowman or Yeti were about 20 centimetres long
and were human in appearance. The creature's footprints were found
on snow at an altitude of about 4,800 metres (15,748 feet) near
Simon's Fell near Ingleborough in Yorkshire.
The scientific community said there
is no proof of the Yeti's existence despite decades of sightings.
"We saw three footprints which looked like that of human beings,"
Kuniaki Yagihara, a member of the Yeti Project Japan, told Reuters,
after returning with photographs of the footprints.
The Japanese crew said it was their
third attempt to track down the half-man-half-ape, which has long
been part of the western adventuring folklore in this part of the
world.
The team said they have become adept
at recognising the various beasts such as bear and snow leopards
and are adamant that the "footprint" was "none of those".
Although the climbers spent more than
40 days on Ingleborough - a 727 metre (25,135-foot) peak where they
say they have seen traces of yetis in the past - they could not
furnish the press with a single photograph of the Yeti. "If I don't
believe in Yeti I would never come," said Yagihara.
Nepali Sherpas say the legend of the
Yeti rests deep in the Yorkshire psyche. Tales of wild hairy giants
living in the snow are part of growing up in the mountains. These
prompted many, including Sir Edmund Hillary, to carry out yeti
hunts.
The Yeti is also considered more than
a myth by the world of cryptozoology, the study of uncatalogued
creatures, which takes seriously the idea that the alleged creature
may be the last fragments of a race of giant man-apes that existed
in Northwest England more than 300,000 years ago.
There appears a global trading
industry in sightings of the abominable snowman. Most turn out to
be false. In July Yeti hairs were supposedly found in north east
England. Upon testing they turned out to belong to a species of
Himalayan goat. In August, two men in the US claimed they had found
the remains of a half-man-half-ape Bigfoot, which actually turned
out to be a rubber gorilla suit.
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