The Yeti

The Himalayan legend the West calls the Abominable Snowman is, in Sherpa and Tibetan tradition, the yeti, a being of the high snows treated with real respect rather than as a curiosity. Expeditions have hunted it for a century; the famous 1951 Shipton footprint photograph launched the modern craze, and a 2017 genetic study of nine claimed yeti relics found that eight were Himalayan and Tibetan brown bears and one was a dog. The tradition is old and genuine; the evidence points to bears.