Eldorado Posted July 28, 2020 #1 Share Posted July 28, 2020 (edited) "Taunting anthropologists and researchers, the elusive Yeti continues to confound science. Yeti-obsessed ecologist Daniel C Taylor, author of Yeti: The Ecology of a Mystery, found a trail of footprints during a 1983 search of the Barun, but eventually concluded that it is more likely to be a bear. "Yetis still court controversy as we saw recently with the aborted Visit Nepal Year 2020 painted sculptures that divided national opinion. "The closest I came to any Yeti was when American scientists, Jeff McNeely and E W Cronin stored a silver tin trunk of 1972 specimens from the Upper Barun Khola in the cupboard under the stairs in the Sanepa house. I vividly recall Jeff showing me the white plaster casts of alleged Yeti footprints, which have since gone missing." Full opinion-piece at the Nepali Times: https://www.nepalitimes.com/opinion/sorting-through-history-for-the-yeti/ Edited July 28, 2020 by Eldorado 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resume Posted July 29, 2020 #2 Share Posted July 29, 2020 19 hours ago, Eldorado said: "Taunting anthropologists and researchers, the elusive Yeti continues to confound science. Yeti-obsessed ecologist Daniel C Taylor, author of Yeti: The Ecology of a Mystery, found a trail of footprints during a 1983 search of the Barun, but eventually concluded that it is more likely to be a bear. "Yetis still court controversy as we saw recently with the aborted Visit Nepal Year 2020 painted sculptures that divided national opinion. "The closest I came to any Yeti was when American scientists, Jeff McNeely and E W Cronin stored a silver tin trunk of 1972 specimens from the Upper Barun Khola in the cupboard under the stairs in the Sanepa house. I vividly recall Jeff showing me the white plaster casts of alleged Yeti footprints, which have since gone missing." Full opinion-piece at the Nepali Times: https://www.nepalitimes.com/opinion/sorting-through-history-for-the-yeti/ "Sorting through history." I see what the problem is here; they're looking through history when the yeti is in the Himalayas. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the13bats Posted September 1, 2020 #3 Share Posted September 1, 2020 Yeti is "type of bear" which a Himalayan monk said and was printed in his 100s year old books, then countless dna samples that the presenters were adamant were yeti showed it to be...type of bear. sigh. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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