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Yeti Project
Japan claims to have found Bigfoot in Nepal - 20081107
A TEAM of Japanese adventurers
say they have discovered footprints made by the legendary
yeti, which is said to roam the Himalayan regions of Nepal.
"The footprints were about 20cm long
and looked like a human's," Yoshiteru Takahashi, the
leader of the Yeti Project Japan, said.
Takahashi was speaking after he returned with
his seven-member team from their third attempt to track down
the half-man-half-ape, tales of which have gripped the imaginations
of Western adventurers and mountaineers for decades.
Despite spending 42 days on Dhaulagiri IV
- a 7661m peak where they say they have seen traces of yetis
in the past - the team failed in their prime objective of
capturing one on film.
But Takahashi said the footprints were proof
enough.
"Myself and other team members have been
coming to the Himalayas for years and we can recognise bear,
deer, wolf and snow leopard prints and it was none of those,"
he said.
"We remain convinced it is real. The
footprints and the stories the locals tell make us sure that
it is not imaginary," he added.
Photographs of the prints have been posted
on the expedition's website, www.everest.co.jp/yeti2008/.
The team had set out nine motion-sensitive
cameras in an area where Takahashi saw what he thought was
a yeti during a previous expedition in 2003.
"It was about 200 metres away in silhouette.
It was walking on two legs like a human and looked about 150
centimetres tall," said Takahashi.
Despite their lack of success this time, the
team plans to continue the quest.
"We will come back as soon as we can,
and we will keep coming back until we get the yeti on film,"
said Takahashi.
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