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Wartime Stories

The Indian Army and the Yeti, Pt. 2

Wartime Stories

Ballen Studios

Society & Culture

4.8781 Ratings

🗓️ 4 November 2024

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

An explorer stumbles too close, risking a face-to-face encounter with the dangerous Yeti.

Transcript

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In late April of 2019, while trekking through the Himalayan mountains near the Indian-Nepalese border,

0:15.0

soldiers assigned to the Indian Army's mountaineering expedition team were startled to discover a set of large footprints

0:22.9

in the snow near their campsite.

0:25.8

While much of the world's media and other skeptics would inevitably mock this discovery,

0:30.5

these men are by no means the first soldiers exploring the mountainous regions of Asia to report

0:35.0

something like this. For centuries now, locals and other men hiking

0:39.2

through these snowy and desolate areas have reported finding similar types of tracks,

0:44.3

with many bringing back photographs and others even claiming to have seen the creatures that

0:49.1

made them. Among these men is Eric Shipton, a highly respected British military attache and mountaineer,

0:56.8

a native-born man of Salon, which is now the country of Sri Lanka.

1:01.1

While leading a reconnaissance expedition to Mount Everest in 51,

1:05.2

Shipton would discover a set of tracks that would make worldwide headlines.

1:10.3

And much like the Indian Army's findings and others throughout the years, the photos he took

1:15.5

appear to present irrefutable evidence of the existence of a creature that has eluded

1:21.3

mankind for centuries.

1:25.9

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

1:37.9

I'm Luke Lamanah, and this is wartime stories.

1:50.0

Thank you, Mark. One of these things. Hang on the moke.

2:03.6

One of these, then.

2:05.6

Tensing.

2:07.6

Nangla, farewell.

2:10.6

Up here.

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