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jock123
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#21 · Posted: 21 Jun 2019 23:57
Shivam302001:
Some Nepalese escorts who accompanied the team said that they were the footprints of bears who are known to frequent that area

Hmmm... But was the bear hopping...? It's hard to see how a bear could leave multiple paw prints, but from a single foot; were it capable of performing such gymnastic feats (rather than "feet"), it'd be as assured of world-wide fame as any yeti ever would...! :-)
Seems more likely someone has obtained a bear's paw from a dead animal, and used that to make a series of prints...
Shivam302001
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#22 · Posted: 24 Jun 2019 09:55
Nothing can be said for certain, as I said. Yet I find the footprints so much like that from the cover of Tintin in Tibet. The manner of them are also quite identical. The snow might have melted to confuse and make it difficult to differentiate between the left and right paws. And it might be of the Yeti no doubt (walking on two legs), but simple conjecture won't help. We need some definite prove, something more than just footprints, to be able to prove the existence of Yetis.

I don't think the Army would fall for a simple trick of footprint forgery or it would have been discovered by someone by now. And anyway, why only one foot? Would it not be a risk of forging the print of just one foot (thereby welcoming close scrutiny), when one can forge both footprints to make it more believable and acceptable? If the Army fell prey to such lacklustre forgery then it would be just pathetic. No, we can safely assume they are genuine footprints. Whose? That is the question worth asking.
jock123
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#23 · Posted: 24 Jun 2019 15:41
Shivam302001:
The snow might have melted to confuse and make it difficult to differentiate between the left and right paws.

Well, this poses another problem: if we are to believe the story as reported by the eye-witnesses, and believe their testimony is reliable, then it was a single paw, repeated multiple times; if we don't believe it was a single paw, we say the witnesses were confused, and can't be relied on.

The witnesses being confused and unreliable can't be used to support their testimony as reliable; not unless we are the Thom(p)sons... :-)

The track of prints shown on the cover of Tintin in Tibet (amongst other details shown in the book) is - as far as I know - based on a photo taken by John Jackson, dating to the 1954 Daily Mail Abominable Snowman Expedition, which he led, in search of the yeti.

Sadly for cryptozoologists (but probably unsurprisingly to everyone else) this investigation proved inconclusive, despite the photos of supposed "yeti prints" he brought back.

Fortunately for Tintinologists, it left the door open enough for Hergé to write his book, and for us to be able to discuss the subject decades later!
Shivam302001
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#24 · Posted: 24 Jun 2019 18:58
jock123
Oh, the witnesses just posted the pictures depicting the footprints. They didn't declare that those were single footprints, it was seen as so in the pictures they posted on Twitter.

Single footprints were drawn on the cover of Tintin in Tibet, just like the pictures posted by the Army. Both are huge and travel in a straight line out of view. Hergé surely must have a reason for doing that? Maybe he came across similar photos of single footprints? Were the pictures taken by Jackson single footprints?
Amazing likeness!
jock123
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#25 · Posted: 25 Jun 2019 19:40
Shivam302001:
Hergé surely must have a reason for doing that? Maybe he came across similar photos of single footprints?

Yes - as I said above, it is based on a photo taken by John Jackson. Google John Jackson 1954 Daily Mail Abominable Snowman Expedition, and you can see examples of photos of the trail of paw-prints, together with people and equipment such as ice-axes for scale.
jock123
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#26 · Posted: 6 Jul 2023 15:26
Update: Not Tintin related, per se, but there's a new podcast series, simply called Yeti, currently available on the BBC Sounds website.
As the BBC describes it:
Andrew Benfield and Richard Horsey travel through India, Myanmar, Nepal and Bhutan in search of stories of yeti sightings and encounters.

I've not listened to it all yet, but it's quite interesting, and contains an unexpected (to me, at least) snippet from an interview from a supporter for the idea that there could be something found out there - Sir David Attenborough!

Also still available is a radio documentary from 2011, Yeti's Finger, in which journalist Matthew Hill tries to find the origin of some relics in a museum's collection.

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