A team of Japanese adventurers on Monday said it found traces of the legendary Yeti, which could live in a Himalayan region located between Nepal and Tibet.
"The footprints were about 20 inches long and resembled those of humans," he told AFP on Monday Yoshiteru Takahashi, the leader of the Yeti Project Japan. Takahashi was speaking after he returned with the seven members of his team after its third attempt to track the half-man half-ape, tales of which have for decades imaginations of Western adventurers and mountaineers.
Despite spending 42 days on Dhaulagiri IV peak of 7,661 meters high, where they saw traces of yetis in the past, the team said it could not record it. But Takahashi said the footprints were proof enough. "Myself and other team members have come to the Himalayas for years and we recognize bear, deer, wolf and snow leopard prints and it was none of that," he added. "We are convinced that they are real. The footprints and the stories told by the people of this place gives us certainty that it is not imaginary, "he added.
Photographs of the prints were sent to the site of the expedition, 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. "profile I saw about 200 meters. Walking on two legs like a human and looked about 150 centimeters tall, "said Takahashi.
Despite the lack of success this time, keep looking. "We will return as soon as possible, and keep coming back until we shot the yeti," said Takahashi.
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