Yéti

See also: Yeti

The yéti or abominable man of snows is a mysterious creature belonging to the legends Nepal eases. In 1936, the geologist Suisse Augusto Gansser accomplishes a voyage of exploration for 8 months in Garhwal, located between the Nanga Parbat and the Everest, in the middle of the the Himalayas. It then has the revelation of this being, mythical or real: the yéti.

Mentioned however in Europe since the 19th century, they are the photographs of prints brought back by Shipton forwarding on the Everest of 1951 which revealed it with the Western public. In July 1986, in a lost valley of the Himalayas, Reinhold Messner crosses for the first time an alarming creature which points out to him the accounts hawked by the Sherpa S on the yéti. In 1997, like other Westerners before them, 2 French adventurers, Alexandre Poussin and Sylvain Shard, discover, by crossing Bobang not with the Indian Cachemire, of mysterious traces in snow which are neither those of a man nor those of a bear. They assemble right on the slope: “ an extraordinary prowess… and absurdity at this altitude (4 600 meter) ”.

The yéti would be a hairy Primate, having a face resembling that of the Homme. Its size would range between 1,50 and 3,75 meters. According to certain witnesses, the biped step would resemble more that of a Ursidé than with that of a Primate. What is contradictory with the fact that the left traces could be followed on very long distances (a Ours can go upright only on a few meters).

The assumptions on its origin are numerous. One of it the fact of going down from large a Monkey of the China of the south of the time of the Pleistocene, the Gigantopithèque. Others bring it closer to fossil primates of the India or the Orang-outang, and some of the Homme of Néandertal.

According to Bernard Heuvelmans, doctor in zoology of the free University of Brussels, the traditions which turn around man-of-snows could return to three types of primates whose surfaces of distribution are recut sometimes.

Apart from many testimonys, the principal indices which seem to accredit the thesis of the existence of the yéti are characteristic traces of step in snow, the Excrément S whose parasitologic study would have revealed the presence of still unknown species of parasite S intestinal and of the hairs whose study by a scientist of the national Muséum of natural history seems to indicate that they come from a primate close to the Orang-outang.

The yéti is called migö (to pronounce " migou") with the Tibet.

Artefacts

A hand momifiée allotted to the Yéti is preserved in the temple of Pangbotchi.

The “scalps” of yéti preserved in the Monastère of Pangbotchi are actually manufactured by the sherpas starting from the skin and of the hairs of the garrot of a local Chèvre wild, the serow ( Naemorhedus sumatraensis ), as showed it Bernard Heuvelmans in 1961. They make use of it at the time of ceremonies to play the part of the yéti, after having covered their head with this scalp. They soak then the head of the yeti in Vin mixed with Huile which will be useful has to make a painting known as “joulienne”.

Others

Yéti is the name of a newspaper of Cartoon, published by Sandyx of November 1990 at May 1991.
Yéti is also the popular hero of the Yetisports plays, created by Chris Hilgert. Among them: the throw of penguins, the golf penguin, the race of surfing against penguins…

Popular culture

In Tintin in Tibet , the yéti makes its more famous appearance in the French-speaking cartoon. The abominable snowman is described there like a creature capable of feelings.
In the cartoon Mandrake the magician , the hero inquires into the yétis in Nepal. He discovers that these creatures are Extra-terrestre S with human appearance, disguised, which lived on Earth since millenia and secretly helped humanity to progress. The topic of the extraterrestrial yétis is found in a film multitude of Série B.

Books

Yéti, of the myth to reality , Reinhold Messner, Glénat (2000) ISBN 2723432947
Yeti….if… No… Forse , Augusto Gansser, (2003)
walk in the sky: 5000 kilometers with feet through the Himalayas , A. Poussin and S. Tesson, France-Leisures (1999) ISBN 2744122378

See too

Internal bonds

Cryptozoologie
Sasquatch (Canada) /Bigfoot (the USA)
Almasty

External bonds

the yéti according to the virtual Institute of cryptozoology
wild men
Yéti presented by Serge-Andre Lemaire on Zone the Himalayas
an original theory
the yéti according to the dictionary skeptic
Group of search for Internet of abominable man of snows (English)

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