Footprints could belong to Yeti: 30-11-2007
A team investigating the existence of the Yeti has found footprints that resemble those of the abominable snowman.
Reports from Reuters have said that a team of nine television producers from the US have spent a week in the icy Khumbu region of Nepal.
Armed with infrared cameras they found footprints on the bank of the Manju river at a height of 2,850 metres.
The footprints are believed to be very similar in size and appearance to sketches of the Yeti.
Legends about hairy creatures living in the Himalayas have caught the imagination of mountain climbers going to Mount Everest since the 1920s and so far no team has ever seen the creature or given proof that it exists.
Chief of the Nepal Mountaineering Association, Ang Tshering Sherpa, told the news agency: "There is a kind of mysterious creature that lives in the Himalayas.
Sherpas refer to local people who are employed as porters or guides and are experts in mountaineering expeditions in the Himalayas. They are also a Nepalese ethnic group from the mountainous regions of Nepal.
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