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Two Everest-region monasteries guarded 'Yeti' relics for centuries. Sir Edmund Hillary tested one himself in a Chicago lab; the other waited until…
By Laxman Rawal · Jul 29, 2026
In a glass-fronted cabinet inside a Sherpa monastery above Namche Bazaar, a monk will show you, for a small donation, a leathery, hair-covered dome about the size of a rugby ball. The label says Yeti scalp. The man who first flew it abroad to find out what it…
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Khumjung was not the only Khumbu monastery guarding a piece of proof. Two trekking days south, in the equally historic village of Pangboche — home to the region's oldest gompa, founded in 1667, and a standard stop between Tengboche and Dingboche — monks kept…
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What this means for trekkers You do not need to believe in the Yeti to want to see either monastery. Khumjung and Pangboche are two of the best-preserved 17th- to 19th-century Sherpa monasteries in the Khumbu, and both sit directly on the standard Everest…
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