Yank by S. John Ross http://www222.pair.com/sjohn/cumberland.htm
Yeti
Yeti, also known as the Abominable Snowman, mostly resides in the Himalayas Mountains, but is a tale well-known in Nepal, Bhutan, China, India, Mongolia and Russia.
A similar beast in North America is known as Bigfoot or Sasquatch.
Yeti is a word from Nepal that translates to “mountain man”. It is indigenous to the mythology of Nepal and Tibet. It is one of the most sought-after creatures in the field of cryptozoology.
Cryptozoology is the study of study of hidden animals. Hidden animals being animals whose existence is not yet proven. http://www.newanimal.org/
In 1921 the Yeti was introduced
to Western culture by Lt. Colonel Charles Howard-Bury in Mount Everest: The Reconnaissance as the Abominable Snowman.
Pliny the Elder’s Natural History describes a Yeti-like creature in the mountains east of India. The Lepcha People http://lepcha.info/ supposedly worshipped a Glacial Being known as a God of the Hunt.
When Westerners began climbing mountains in the Himalayas reports of the Yeti skyrocketed.
The some of the prevailing wisdom on the Yeti is that Yeti are nocturnal, very fast and they can walk upright or on all four legs. According to the Nepalese, the Yeti is so strong, it can kill a human with one punch. The Yeti has also been described as having reddish-hair, a terrible stench and of having the capability to throw boulders as if they were pebbles.
In 1959 the United States government thought finding the Yeti was enough of a possibility to issue a policy on Yeti hunting that included the guideline that the Yeti was not to be harmed except in self-defense. http://www.paranormalpopculture.com/2013/02/us-governments-official-yeti-policy.html
http://www.is-bigfoot-real.com/tag/legend-of-the-yeti/
http://www.unmuseum.org/yeti.htm
http://www.kidzworld.com/article/2220-the-legends-of-bigfoot-sasquatch-and-the-yeti
http://www.pantheon.org/articles/y/yeti.html
http://climbing.about.com/od/mountainclimbing/a/The-Yeti-Legend-Lore-And-Climbing-Mystery.htm
http://www.ourbigfoot.com/yeti.html
http://www.newanimal.org/bigfoot-pals.htm
http://www.cryptozoology.com/
~lisa
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