Comments on: Yeti Everything Is Relative

By: DWA

DWA — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 15:24:59 +0000

And not to be too crass, but: if this is on a t-shirt somewhere I want it. A poster wouldn’t hurt neither.

By: DWA

DWA — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 16:24:24 +0000

I almost didn’t check into this thread.

The picture alone was sufficient reason. Beautiful.

And thanks for the commentary too.

By: Adam Davies

Adam Davies — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 19:28:15 +0000

I agree that Bhutan would be an excellent place to visit.I have wanted to go and look for further evidence of Yeti’s there for the last five years, and have doen some tentative research on he logistics.Unfortunately, it is very expensive for a private individual to fund an expedition there. Maybe oneday!

By: Kopite

Kopite — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 21:36:17 +0000

Thanks for the info Adam. Sounds like you’ver travelled around a great deal. I’m not too knowledgeable regarding the Orang Pendek myself so I wouldn’t be aware if reports there are increasing or not. The lack of Yeti reports concerns me though. Since the Bhutan hair sample was brought back in the early 2000s I don’t recal many other major reports. I would have expected the Bhutan hair sample to have initiated more research in that area (it was an interesting find after all) but that doesn’t seem to be the case.

As I said, I hear little or nothing about the Yeti these days. Sadly.

By: Adam Davies

Adam Davies — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 10:58:52 +0000

It is a good question Kopite, and one that concerns me. When I was in Nepal, we came across very few eyewitness reports,and even then they were mostly recounting reports from many years ago. I had the same experience in Mongolia with the Almas, with very few, very infrequent reports. My own speculative view is that in these areas we are seeing a serious decline in population, with hominids being pushed ever further into remoter areas, by the encroachment of man. Contrast this with the Orang Pendek in Sumatra, where if anything, sightings are becoming more frequent In fact I was informed of one only the other day. Here, the creature seems to be making a “better” attempt, if that is the right word, to adapt to human encroachment. For example, it is regularly seen raiding farmland, in search of easy pickings. The same farmland, that was sadly, rainforest only a few years ago. Whilst you could argue this may be desperation on the animals part, evidence, which includes a selective preference for fruits not found in the forest, inclines otherwise, and suggests habitual learning by this unique primate.

By: Kopite

Kopite — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 08:20:38 +0000

Nice picture.

By the way, what’s up with the lack of Yeti sightngs and reports these days? The Yeti seems to be almost the ‘forgotten cryptid’ this last decade or two.

By: Adam Davies

Adam Davies — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 20:19:50 +0000

If somebody could ask this Yeti to come down from that mountain and pose for a picture with me, I would be very grateful. It would certainly save me the trouble of hauling myself up there again in October!