Alpinist Sure Yeti Exists

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30688, 2 March 1965, Page 13

Alpinist Sure Yeti Exists

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NEW DELHI, March 1.

An expedition led by Sir Edmund Hillary which searched unsuccessfully for the “abominable snowman” in the Himalayas in 1961 had been either wrong in its approach or “grossly unscientific,” an American mountaineer said todav.

The mountaineer. Norman Dyhrenfurth, leader of the American expedition that climbed Mount Everest in 1963, said the was firmly convinced the snowman, or yeti, exists.

“They can scoff if they like but 1 am willing to spend years if necessary to prove it,” he said. Dyhrenfurth, who is 46, is noted for his cool, calculat-

peaks PProadl to ltie e P alese vallevJ 0 with m V‘ hroUgh 016 valleys with hu adreds o f P°* ere ’ tL mOSt have, a shy, inten, Eent ani . mal like the yeC latLlr a llv win take off,” “We will go in ~ teams, two or three sunset up look-outs and he said. * tve> “We can’t have any nger

beavers who want to rush off and climb the nearest peak. We must be patient.” The mountain people say the yeti is about sft 6in tall, covered with red-brown hair. He is said to stand erect, lope across the mountain slopes in night-time forays for food, and sometimes attack people. Sir Edmund Hillary said all “evidence” has been explained away—the tracks are those of fox enlarged in melting snow by the sun, recovered scalps are fur from the Tibetan blue bears. Dyhrenfurth claims to have seen fresh yeti tracks, and to have talks with litererate mountain people who claim to have seen a yeti. The American explorer said he will set up cameras equipped with trip wires to photograph yeti at night and, if possible, knock a yeti unconscious with guns that fire hypodermic needles. “I’m going to Nepal next month to get government permission for my plan—the Nepalese Government believes in the yeti, too, you know—and then I will go back to the United States to form the team and get the financial backing.”