You're listening to the second and final part of Unexplained, Season 7, Episode 8, walking

on snow.

In early February, 1954, a man in a silk cravat, golfing jacket and plimpsoles, strode

confidently toward a small village of tents, erected in the yak pastures of the upper

Doode-Cozy Valley, about 14,000 feet up in the Himalayas.

The man was British foreign correspondent Ralph Isard, and walking alongside him, benumerous

mountaineers, or nethologists, suologists and fellow journalists, as well as 370 Nepalese

porters.

As they arrived, anthropologist Charles Stoner welcomed them.

Isard waved back his greeting, then took a moment to catch his breath, and fished inside

his jacket for his cigarette case.

He motioned for the porters carrying all his things to go ahead and set up his tent.

Then he lit up a cigarette and gazed out at the surrounding mountains, dusted white

with snow.

The daily males Yeti hunting expedition had well and truly arrived.

Their mission was to find substantive physical evidence of a Yeti, and if possible, capture

one, and bring it to the UK.

After settling in, what would be their home for the next three months, the team promptly

set about devising a plan.

Since their quarry was supposedly a scarce, solitary creature, may be seen only once or

twice by people who lived their entire lives in these mountains, they decided to venture

out in two-person teams, each with local porters and guides, to cover as much ground as possible.

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