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Eric Shipton's photo of a 13-inch print near Everest sparked global Yeti mania — DNA science later traced most of the physical 'evidence' back to…
By Laxman Rawal · Aug 28, 2026
On 8 November 1951, on a glacier in the Menlung Basin near the Nepal-Tibet border, three men crossing a high pass looked down and saw a line of footprints in the fresh snow that none of them could explain. One was Eric Shipton, already one of the most…
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What this means for you You will not meet a Yeti on the trail — but you may well meet what started the legend. Himalayan brown bears and Asian black bears are real, present, and occasionally reported at altitude on routes like the Everest Base Camp trek and…
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