Complements the documentary series Yeti on BBC Sounds
The 1921 British Mount Everest Reconnaissance Expedition set out from India to find a route to, and hopefully up, the world's highest mountain, but on their return the team had more to report than the successes of their recce. Interviewed by journalist Henry Newman, they spoke of coming across large footprints in the snow. Expedition leader Charles Howard-Bury concluded that they had been made by the loping of a wolf; local guides and porters, however, said they belonged to the legendary metoh-kangmi, roughly translating as ‘man-bear snowman'.
FOOTPRINTS IN THE SNOW
An intrigued Newman spoke to some of the Tibetans who meant he thought it was called ‘filthy snowman'. He came up with something far more evocative: the abominable snowman.
