On Mount Kankar Puensum, the highest Himalayan mountain (elevation 7.570 m above sea level) in Bhutan, footprints of an unknown creature were filmed. The picture was taken by climber Steve Berry during his hike up the mountain back in October 2014.
According to Berry, he examined these tracks and is sure that neither a snow leopard nor any four-legged animal could have left them. Maybe then a bear walking on two legs? This happens sometimes. No, Steve is sure the footprints are not bearish. According to the climber, most of all these footprints are similar … to the paw prints of a gorilla or other large primate.
66-year-old Steve Berry is from South Gloucestershire (UK). In an interview with the Daily Mail reporters, he says that during a hike up the mountain in 2014, local residents assured that Berry's squad was the first in this area and that climbers had not used this route before.
“I always thought the stories about the yeti were just fiction,” Steve says. “But there is no doubt that these strange footprints were real. They were very clearly visible as we stood on the pass at 17,800 feet (5,400 meters). There was a difference in elevation between us and the tracks, so we could not get close to the tracks."
When, 4 days later, Berry's detachment reached the human settlements, the village shepherd told him that he personally saw the Yeti in these parts, or as he is called here, migo (migo) 11 years ago. He described this creature as "completely covered in grayish-brown fur, like a cat or dog, standing on its feet like a human."
This year, Channel 4 will release a documentary about the footprints captured by Steve Berry.
Zoologist John Downs, examining the photo of the footprints, says that this slope is quite steep and only someone as dexterous as a mountain goat could leave footprints on it. But he's not sure if it was a bipedal primate.
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Himalayan Yeti
The Himalayas are considered almost the birthplace of the "snowmen". At least from the legends that came from the highlands of Nepal and Bhutan, the educated world community first learned about these huge hairy humanoid creatures.
In 1830, the British explorer BH Hodgson spread the legend by publishing his story of a bipedal giant covered with dark wool in the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. He insisted that he had seen him personally.
In 1951, famed rock climber Eric Shipton first photographed yeti footprints he had found in the Himalayas. Published pictures. Than gave start to the world yeti-mania. In 1953, she was supported by legendary climbers Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay, who were the first to climb Everest. It was reported that they, too, during the ascent came across huge human tracks. Although for two years Hillary did not believe in the Yeti.
Yeti Footprints by Eric Shipton
The chain of footprints captured by Shipton is very similar to the one seen by Steve Berry.
Reinhold Messner, the first to climb Mount Everest without an oxygen mask, said he saw Bigfoot in 1986. True, in Tibet. The meeting amazed the climber so much that he became an inquisitive cryptozoologist researcher.
