Japanese Yeti hunters head to Nepal
Forget about that Big Foot hoax. Japanese adventurers are heading to Nepal to find the Yeti:
Seven climbers, supported by sherpas and carrying cameras and telescopes, will spend 50 days on the lower reaches of the 7,661-metre (25,134-ft) Dhaulagiri IV to try and collect evidence of the beast’s existence, team leader Yoshiteru Takahashi said.
Takahashi, who carried out similar missions in the same area in 1994 and 2003, told Reuters that one of his team members and three sherpas had seen “something like the Yeti” from a distance five years ago.
“We believe that was the Yeti,” said Takahashi, a 65-year-old employee of a Tokyo furniture company. “So we are going to search for a third time. We need photographs and video tapes to prove it. It is very important.”
[The yeti image in this post is taken from this Japanese blog, which claims it was taken in Shibuya station.]
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