at seventeen and a half thousand feet
ever Space Camp is a ragged collection
of tents on a moon like sea of boulders
near here is where Shipton took his
remarkable photograph the image they
started the West’s obsession with the
Yeti
it was late in the afternoon on November
the 8th 1951 and shipped in and the
expedition’s doctor Michael Ward were
working on a glass here a couple of
miles from here and then suddenly they
came across a set of huge footprints
that went away from them down the
glassier and it left them completely
mystified the mystery footprints were
about 12 inches long and 5 inches wide
Shipton even had the presence of mind to
use his own ice axe to give a sense of
scale to find any footprints at such
high altitude was simply inexplicable so
high above the treeline and so high
above any human habitation they didn’t
look like the footprints of a man a bear
or a yak the only animals that could
even conceivably be when their glassier
at this altitude but the Sherpas knew
exactly what they were Yeti footprints
another member of the Shipton team Tom
Bordelon saw the footprints a few days
later and when he wrote a letter home he
used the memorable phrase the abominable
snowman is not a myth Shipton’s picture
made headlines around the globe nowadays
they be cries of hoax but back in the
1950s respectable adventurers were taken
at their word
this iconic photograph marked a new
beginning and Yeti mania was born
ever Space Camp is a ragged collection
of tents on a moon like sea of boulders
near here is where Shipton took his
remarkable photograph the image they
started the West’s obsession with the
Yeti
it was late in the afternoon on November
the 8th 1951 and shipped in and the
expedition’s doctor Michael Ward were
working on a glass here a couple of
miles from here and then suddenly they
came across a set of huge footprints
that went away from them down the
glassier and it left them completely
mystified the mystery footprints were
about 12 inches long and 5 inches wide
Shipton even had the presence of mind to
use his own ice axe to give a sense of
scale to find any footprints at such
high altitude was simply inexplicable so
high above the treeline and so high
above any human habitation they didn’t
look like the footprints of a man a bear
or a yak the only animals that could
even conceivably be when their glassier
at this altitude but the Sherpas knew
exactly what they were Yeti footprints
another member of the Shipton team Tom
Bordelon saw the footprints a few days
later and when he wrote a letter home he
used the memorable phrase the abominable
snowman is not a myth Shipton’s picture
made headlines around the globe nowadays
they be cries of hoax but back in the
1950s respectable adventurers were taken
at their word
this iconic photograph marked a new
beginning and Yeti mania was born
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