Comments on: Japanese Team Finds Yeti Footprints In Nepal

By: Lightning Orb

Lightning Orb — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 03:13:45 +0000

@ shumway - I thought it looked absurdly skinny at first also, but I think that’s just a bad angle; if not it doesn’t even look like a hominoid. From the description it does certainly sound too short for a normal Yeti though

By: shumway10973

shumway10973 — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 16:46:33 +0000

I was under the impression that a footprint (of anything) in that condition in the snow means it’s old (the footprint). It has been at least a few days (if not more) and rather useless. I am a little skeptical about this one. The footprint looks skinny and short. True, this could be a juvenile (especially seeing how we know nothing of their lifestyle), but I doubt a juvenile would be walking around out there by itself.

By: Lightning Orb

Lightning Orb — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 01:35:41 +0000

Then again if monks do walk around barefoot in the snow they might be missing a toe or two

By: MattBille

MattBille — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 21:13:55 +0000

How long can the foot of the Himalyan langur be?

By: Spinach Village

Spinach Village — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 17:53:59 +0000

Who walks around in the snow barefoot except yeti’s? How cold is it there anyhow?

By: DWA

DWA — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 16:04:27 +0000

Well, aren’t they excited.

I guess you would have to be there, looking at that long line of prints, and not seeing any way that any combination of sun, wind, moisture and the funny things animal feet and snow do could come up with any animal you know about.

And to me there it is. How long was this trackway? is to me essential to know. It’s a standard tracker’s aphorism that any animal, sooner or later, can make a perfect example of a different animal’s track. But a long line of tracks that look like nothing known to exist, every one of them being a known animal’s track, monkeyed with by the elements?

Seems a stretch to me, that.

Off to look at this website.

By: cliffhanger042002

cliffhanger042002 — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 12:35:27 +0000

I’m just glad to see some measurements and someone take the time to drop a tape/ruler down next to the print for scale and reference!!! LOL.

By: Lightning Orb

Lightning Orb — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 07:48:11 +0000

It’s probably not from a monk unless he had his big toe curled under his foot - hard to tell, though it doesn’t really look like there’s enough of an indent for that. But I agree it’s hard to tell much about it. Better than most of those vids of brown hairy things in the trees though. And who knows - perhaps the Yeti is a sort of human…

By: cryptidsrus

cryptidsrus — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 23:55:23 +0000

Wish these hardy, hopeful gentlemen all the luck that I can possibly muster in the world.
May they find Ole Snowy indeed.

By: mrbf2006

mrbf2006 — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 21:43:27 +0000

The photo on the left of the alleged Yeti footprint seems to be more humanlike and human-sized than Yeti-sized. It could be one of those monks who like to walk around barefoot up in the Himalayas. Still, interesting article.