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The 1951 Photo That Convinced the World Yetis Were Real — And What DNA Finally Proved Made the Tracks

Eric Shipton's footprint photograph from the Menlung Glacier near Everest ran in newspapers worldwide and launched a legend. A 2017 DNA study on nine…

By Laxman Rawal · Aug 15, 2026

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A grainy black-and-white photograph of a footprint in the snow, taken by a British mountaineer scouting a route toward Everest, ran in newspapers around the world in December 1951 and did more to convince the public that a Himalayan 'abominable snowman'…

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What the DNA actually found

Charlotte Lindqvist, a biologist at the University at Buffalo, and her team collected hair, bone, tooth, skin and scat samples that had been kept for years in monasteries, museums and private collections as physical yeti evidence, including one specimen…

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