NEW DELHI – The Indian Army has said that its team had sighted “mysterious footprints of the mythical beast Yeti”, commonly known as the “abominable snowman” that many over the decades claim to have seen, but without much proof.
On Monday night, the army’s additional directorate general of public information (ADGPI) said its mountain expedition team had made the sighting near the Makalu base camp in eastern Nepal, reported NDTV on Monday.
The official Twitter handle of the ADGPI also posted photographs of the footprints. The sightings were made on April on April 09, the army said.
For the first time, an #IndianArmy Moutaineering Expedition Team has sited Mysterious Footprints of mythical beast ‘Yeti’ measuring 32×15 inches close to Makalu Base Camp on 09 April 2019. This elusive snowman has only been sighted at Makalu-Barun National Park in the past. pic.twitter.com/AMD4MYIgV7
— ADG PI – INDIAN ARMY (@adgpi) April 29, 2019
The “Yeti’s” footsteps measured 2.6 feet, the ADGPI tweet said. A footstep is a distance between one-foot print and the next during a normal walk. The average length of the footstep of an adult male human being is said to be around 2.5 feet.
The tweet claimed that “Yeti” had been sighted at the Makalu-Barun National Park in the past, too.
For decades, the mysterious giant snowman has fired the imagination of adventurers and mountaineers venturing into the Himalayan slopes.
In 2014, a controversial study created quite a flutter by claiming to have collected two Yeti fur samples from Bhutan and northern India. It said that a creature—a hybrid between a polar and a brown bear—could be very much alive still.
The scientific community has, however, not bought into these claims.
The Indian Army’s claims could potentially fire another round of debate over the mystical Himalayan giant.
