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Footprints in the Snow

British explorer Eric Shipton discovered something unusual on his fifth trip to Mount Everest in 1951. He was on an expedition to find a route to the summit of Mount Everest on the mountain’s south face in Nepal.

On this expedition, Shipton found mysterious human-like footprints in the snow. They were about 13 inches (33 cm) long and twice as wide as the footprint of an average man. The outline of a giant big toe and four or five smaller toes were

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