Is there really a snowman on Mount Everest?

1953 65438+February 3 1 day, a British expedition arrived in India armed to the teeth, ready to go to Nepal to find the mysterious snowman.

Six months ago, Edmund Hillary, the tour leader, and Tenzin Norge, his Sherpa guide, found huge footprints on their way to climb Mount Everest. They firmly believe that the snowman will definitely appear again.

Snowman is a mysterious animal between man and ape. Up to now, there are no exact snowman specimens for people to study, and the legendary materials about snowman are far more than empirical ones. Snowman in Himalayas is a branch that people talk about the most.

According to the data, the news of snowman's haunting in high altitude areas of the Himalayas is often seen in newspapers: as early as 1925, a Greek photographer reported that he had captured the snowman's whereabouts in the valley area of Mount Everest; 195 1 year, a British climber claimed to have found the trail of a snowman on Mount Everest, which borders Nepal and China. 1953 In May, the first two climbers who successfully climbed Mount Everest also claimed to have seen a snowman on their way to the summit.

195 1 year, the British Everest mountaineering team took the first clear photo of snowman footprints. This footprint was left on a thin layer of snow on the hard ice. It is 0.3 meters long and 0.018 meters wide, and the thumb is very open.

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