1961 newspaper Edmund Hillary says YETI (The Abominable Snowman) DOES NOT EXIST!

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1961 newspaper Edmund Hillary says YETI (The Abominable Snowman) DOES NOT EXIST!
1961 newspaper Edmund Hillary, the 1st to summit Mt Everest, says YETI (The Abominable Snowman) DOES NOT EXIST !
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SEE PHOTO(s) - COMPLETE ORIGINAL NEWSPAPER, the
York Dispatch
(PA) dated May 29, 1961. This original newspaper contains a front page heading: "'Snowman' Ruled Out / (Sir Edmund) Hillary Expedition Doubts Existence of Yeti."
The Yeti (also known as Meh-Teh in Himalayan folklore) is an ape-like creature purported to inhabit the Himalayan mountain range in Asia. In western popular culture, the creature is commonly referred to as the Abominable Snowman. Supposed evidence of the Yeti's existence include anecdotal visual sightings, disputed video recordings, photographs, casts of large footprints, etc. Some of these are speculated or known to be hoaxes.
Folklorists trace the origin of the Yeti to a combination of factors including Sherpa folklore and misidentified fauna such as bear or yak. Mainstream science has largely discounted the Yeti's existence for these reasons.
Much like Bigfoot, a similar alleged creature said to inhabit North America, the Yeti has become an icon of cryptozoology and a part of modern popular culture.
n 1953, Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay reported seeing large footprints while scaling Mount Everest. Hillary would later discount Yeti reports as unreliable. In his first autobiography Tenzing said that he believed the Yeti was a large ape, and although he had never seen it himself his father had seen one twice, but in his second autobiography he said he had become much more sceptical about its existence.
In 1960, Sir Edmund Hillary mounted the 1960–61 Silver Hut expedition to the Himalayas, which was to collect and analyse physical evidence of the Yeti. Hillary borrowed a supposed Yeti scalp from the Khumjung monastery then himself and Khumjo Chumbi (the village headman), brought the scalp back to London where a small sample was cut off for testing. Marca Burns made a detailed examination of the sample of skin and hair from the margin of the alleged Yeti scalp and compared it with similar samples from the serow, blue bear and black bear. Burns concluded the sample "was probably made from the skin of an animal closely resembling the sampled specimen of Serow, but definitely not identical with it: possibly a local variety or race of the same species, or a different but closely related species."
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