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A great deal of research was done for this series. While our introduction has been taken

from multiple sources, it has primarily been extrapolated from the following book, Yeti,

the Ecology of a Mystery by Daniel C. Taylor, whom our listeners will meet in part three of this series.

In 1921, the Royal Geographic Society was just over 90 years old when its sent lieutenant

colonel C. K. Howard Berry defined an ascent route from out Everest. On this trip,

the expedition saw dark figures crossing the snow in the distance where no man should have been.

When they found the tracks, they knew these were men of the snows. The colonel's guides on the

trip called these men, Mehto Kangmys. When it came time to write of these exploits,

journalist Bill Newhouse, recognizing the inaccessibility of the term Mehto Kangmys,

did his own loose translation and coined the phrase, the Abominable Snowman.

That was the first of many sightings at multiple elevations, not only on Mount Everest,

but in surrounding Himalayan regions as well. However, the one piece of evidence that seemed to

propel the Abominable Snowman to stratospheric levels of consciousness is what is now known as,

the Shiptan Footprint. The man who took the photo of that footprint was Eric Earl Shiptan,

commander of the most excellent order of the British Empire, and he was bored in what is now known

as Sri Lanka in 1907. Shiptan is well known in the history of the mountain climbing community and

more specifically the region of Mount Everest. In 1935, he undertook a Mount Everest expedition with

a legendary guide, Sherpa Tenzing Norge, one of the hundred most influential people of the 20th

century according to Time magazine. Norge, along with Sir Edmund Hillary, would be credited in 1953

as one of the first men to summit Mount Everest, which stands at 29,035 feet.

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