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Graham Hoyland. Yeti: An Abominable History
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Dedication
Introduction. October 2016
CHAPTER ONE
A surprising discovery … Attenborough, a believer … Tintin in Tibet … the Third Eye … upon that mountain … a hero of Mount Everest … a wild goose chase … a lost camera … his shroud the snow
CHAPTER TWO
When men and mountains meet … campfire stories … the Abdominal Snowman … the 1921 Reconnaissance of Mount Everest … a remarkable man … more footprints … The Valley of the Flowers
CHAPTER THREE
Nazi SS Operation Tibet … shooting your wife is wrong … Abominable Snowmen of Everest … Shipton and Tilman … the last explorers … a Blank on the Map … Appendix B … a one-legged, carnivorous bird … the Ascent of Rum Doodle
CHAPTER FOUR
Yeti prints on Everest … an English Ulysses … RAF Mosquito over Everest … climbing in women’s clothing … a sex diary … the Daily Mail Snowman Expedition … Casino Royale … a yeti scalp … a giant panda cub
CHAPTER FIVE
Yeti-mania … the CIA connection … the escape of the Dalai Lama … spies and damned spies … the Abominable Sanderson … Roald Dahl … sleeping with everyone worth over $50,000 … the atomic bug … nuclear testing … death of a woman mountaineer … Nanda Devi
CHAPTER SIX
The Himalayan yeti … Hillary’s insight … zombie fungus … Bhutan’s migoi … the Manchester plumber … and the Eiger Sanction … crushed testicles … gigantopithecus … TV yetis … a hobbit
CHAPTER SEVEN
A Russian Bigfoot … Zana, a Russian wild woman … Rawicz and his long walk … a French Spy … more Yogi than yeti … An English yeti … Piltdown Man … A Scottish yeti … the Big Grey Man of Ben Macdui … Am Fear Liath Mór … a fictional yeti
CHAPTER EIGHT
Bigfoot … Windwalkers … Denali … Sasquatch … cannibal wildmen … a curious interest in bulldozers … The Bigfoot film … the Minnesota Iceman … Cripplefoot … the Grolar bear … eating people is wrong … magical realism
Cripplefoot
CHAPTER NINE
An uneasy night’s sleep … Loch Ness … a brave Saint … Nessie … the beast … a Jurassic jaywalker … a big-game hunter … the Surgeon’s photograph … a Knight and a dragon … Greenland sharks … satellites
Nessie from space
St Columba saw Nessie
Nessie seen by over a thousand witnesses
The Three Anglers
Mrs Aldie Mackay
The George Spicer sighting of a Jurassic-era dinosaur
The Marmaduke Wetherell footprints
The Surgeon’s Photograph
The monster only visits occasionally
It’s a Greenland shark
It’s an elephant
It’s a plesiosaur
It’s a tree
It’s a mis-identification
What about a giant catfish?
It’s the tourist industry
CHAPTER TEN
A brontosaurus babe … one who stops rivers … a German baron … Sanderson again … creationists … Destination: Untruth … the Giant of Kandahar … the Devil’s Footprints … a balloon … Ockham’s Razor … Bertrand Russell’s teapot … flying saucers … Crop circles … a Devil Mower … hoaxers and the hoaxed … the power of belief … UFOs
The red-headed Giant of Kandahar
Grendel
The Devil’s Footprints
Unidentified flying objects
CHAPTER ELEVEN
Conserving the yeti … space travel is utter bilge … Riddle of the Sands … Grey Owl … mass extinctions … the population bomb … Malthus … how to clone a mammoth … the Giant Penguin
The Clearwater Giant Penguin
CHAPTER TWELVE
The Surgeon’s knife … the Microbe is very small … a town like Alice … Science vs Arts … Science vs Religion
The future of monsters
Footnotes. Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
Chapter Eight
Chapter Nine
Chapter Ten
Chapter Eleven
Chapter Twelve
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgements
Picture Credits
Also by Graham Hoyland
About the Publisher
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To the seekers after truth
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At length, having taken all the photographs I wanted on the pass, I asked the men to accompany me and follow up the tracks. They were very averse to this at first, but eventually agreed, as they said, following their own ‘logic’, that the Snowman had come from, not gone, in that direction. From the pass the tracks followed a broad, slightly ascending snow-ridge and, except for one divergence, took an almost straight line. After some 300 yards they turned off the ridge and descended a steep rock-face fully 1,000 feet high seamed with snow gullies. Through my monocular glass I was able to follow them down to a small but considerably crevassed glacier, descending towards the Bhyundar valley and down this to the lowermost limit of the new snow. I was much impressed by the difficulties overcome and the intelligence displayed in overcoming them. In order to descend the face, the beast had made a series of intricate traverses and had zigzagged down a series of ridges and gullies. His track down the glacier was masterly, and from our perch I could see every detail and how cunningly he had avoided concealed snow-covered crevasses. An expert mountaineer could not have made a better route and to have accomplished it without an ice-axe would have been both difficult and dangerous, whilst the unroped descent of a crevassed snow-covered glacier must be accounted as unjustifiable. Obviously the ‘Snowman’ was well qualified for membership of the Himalayan Club.
My examination in this direction completed, we returned to the pass, and I decided to follow the track in the reverse direction. The man, however, said that this was the direction in which the Snowman was going, and if we overtook him, and even so much as set eyes upon him, we should all drop dead in our tracks, or come to an otherwise bad end. They were so scared at the prospect that I felt it was unfair to force them to accompany me, though I believe that Wangdi, at least, would have done so had I asked him.
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