Yeti

Yeti
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What leads us to believe in monsters? What happens when we meet the brutal creatures of our nightmares?Tales of the yeti, the ‘Abominable Snowman’ of the Himalayas, have been recorded for centuries. This huge, ape-like, hairy creature has tantalised explorers, mountaineers and locals with curious footprints and elusive appearances. But until recently, no one has been able to identify what this mythical creature might be, or even determine if it is real.On an expedition to the remote Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan, Graham Hoyland found and filmed footprints of the mythical yeti in a part of the country that has never before been visited by Western explorers. In a lost valley near the unclimbed mountain Gangkar Punsum, Hoyland believes he was stalked by the mysterious yeti, a beast so unspeakably powerful that locals say it can kill a yak with one savage blow of its fist.As he delves into the fascinating history of this ancient legend, Hoyland hears tales of the yeti from Sherpas who have tried and failed to track it. He explores the literary hinterland behind the legend and searches for the yeti’s American cousin Bigfoot, the Loch Ness monster and her African relative Mokèlé-Mbèmbé. From the dubious, mystical pseudo-science of the Nazis in the 1930s to our current era of ‘post-truth’ and ‘fake news’, Hoyland examines the age-old cultural phenomena that have shaped our collective consciousness and fuelled a belief in the existence of these monstrous creatures.

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Graham Hoyland. Yeti

Copyright

Praise for Yeti

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

About the Author

Also by Graham Hoyland

About the Publisher

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‘Illuminating and entertaining’ The Times

‘A thorough and highly enjoyable round-up of current “cryptid credibility” written by someone with much Himalayan experience’ Literary Review

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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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