Yeti Footprint Photos Sold For £3,500

A photograph taken in the Menlung Basin in the Himalayas in 1951 of a mysterious footprint believed to be that of a Yeti (AKA) Abominable Snowman went under the hammer and sold for a whopping £3,500.

A group of mountain climbers travelled to the Himalayas on a reconnaissance mission before they made attempting to climb and conquer Mount Everest.
Tom Bourdillon a member of the expedition sent the photograph to a friend Michael Davies with an inscription on the reverse saying.

“Dear Mick, here are the footprint photos: sorry for the delay. We came across them on a high pass on the Nepal-Tibet watershed during the 1951 Everest expedition.

“They seemed to have come over a secondary pass at about 19,500ft, down to 19,000ft where we first saw them, and then went on down the glacier. We followed them for the better part of a mile.

“What it is, I don’t know, but I am quite clear that it is no animal known to live in the Himalaya, and that it is big. Compare the depths to which it and Mike Ward (no featherweight) have broken into the snow. Yours, Tom Bourdillon.”

We have all heard about the myth but what are your thoughts? Do you believe there is a yeti hiding in the mountains or is it just a story that is passed down generations?

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