The Yeti: The Abominable Snowman of the Himalayas

Mount Everest, Nuptse and the Khumbu Glacier in the Himalayas, the Yeti's reported home

About 6 min readFor a century, climbers and scientists have chased footprints in Himalayan snow. The Yeti’s most famous evidence — a single photographed footprint from 1951 — has been examined more than any other track in cryptozoology, and DNA testing has now traced the physical relics to bears.