In 2019, a team of 18 soldiers assigned to the Indian Army's mountaineering expedition team

were conducting a commemorative two-month-long trek to summit Makalu, which is the fifth highest mountain

peak in the world. Having departed the city of Delhi a month earlier while they were resting

at a waypoint called Long Malay Karka to conduct high altitude of climatization before continuing

on to the Makalu base camp, they stumbled on something quite unexpected near their campsite, something that would make

their blood run colder than the freezing weather had managed to.

It was footprints, massive footprints in the snow.

The question remains unanswered, however.

Are these footprints newly discovered evidence of a creature

that has eluded mankind for centuries?

This is the story of the Indian Army and the Yeti.

I'm Luke Lamanah, and this is wartime stories. ... The Indian Army Mountaineering Team's

2019 expedition to Mount Macaloo, which began on March 27th, had first set out from Delhi.

Similar expeditions to this one have been conducted by the Indian

Army for decades. These ventures have been performed as a commemorative gesture towards

past successes in the nation's long fight for freedom, a 200-year-long struggle against British rule

that ended in 1947, with the country then being divided into India and Pakistan.

Despite the end of the British Raj, this sudden division of land between these two nations

resulted in sudden massive migrations, seizure of power, political and religious violence,

and decades of continued bloodshed.

Territorial wars between India and Pakistan have continued even until today.

The threat of nuclear war is always looming, and little more than a fragile ceasefire has been maintained since 2003,

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