TRACKS IN THE SNOW
MYSTERY OF TIBET. A MAN-EATING RACE. LONDON. Jan. 11. Mysterious marks found in the snow in Tibet were described by Mr. H. W. Tilman, leader cl the coming Everest expedition, to a meeting of members of the Royal Geographical Society. While exploring in the uninhabited region between Hunga and Sinkiang, he found in the snow tracks wiiJ-n Sherpa porters identified as those of “the Abominable Snowman.’’ T.ie tracks were certainly not those of any kind of bear. They were loughiy circular, being eight inches across and nine inches deep, and all on the same axis, instead of being to the right and left, as would be the case with any four-footed animal. “The Sherpas immediately told me,” said Mr. Tilman, “that there were two kinds of snowmen, one living exclusively on yaks, and the other o.n men. This was the smaller or maneating variety. “When I pointed out that, as nobody had been in this region for 30 years, the snowman must be devilish hungry, the Sherpas were not nearly so amused as I expected.”
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 23, 28 January 1938, Page 3
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