'Yeti footprint' found: 21-10-2008
Adventure travellers heading to Nepal and Tibet had better watch out for yetis, if one team of Japanese adventurers is anything to go by.
Travellers should at the very least pack an extra memory stick or spool for their camera following the news that the explorers claim to have discovered footprints made by a yeti.
The alleged discovery was no accident, having been made by the Yeti Project Japan.
"The footprints were about 20 centimetres (eight inches) long and looked like a human's," Yoshiteru Takahashi, the leader of the Yeti Project Japan, told AFP in Kathmandu on Monday.
"Myself and other team members have been coming to the Himalayas for years and we can recognise bear, deer, wolf and snow leopard prints and it was none of those.
"We remain convinced it is real. The footprints and the stories the locals tell make us sure that it is not imaginary."
The seven-man-team had made two previous attempts to find the legendary creature and this time spent 42 days on Dhaulagiri IV in the Himalayas in an attempt to find it.
But all the team returned with were photos of footprints, meaning they will have to try again next time.
Earlier this year, a man in the US claimed to have killed Bigfoot and released photos of what he said was the body in a freezer. His 'evidence' turned out to be a gorilla costume with rubber mask.
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