- KATHMANDU (Reuters) - An American adventurer on a skiing expedition on
Mount Everest said Tuesday he had seen two animals he believed were Yeti.
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- Craig Calonica said he saw two creatures
together, walking erect, around Sept. 17.
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- The 45-year-old skier and climber was
on his way down to base camp at 17,000 feet from a camp at 21,300 feet
when he saw the creatures.
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- He said they had thick, shiny, black
fur and walked like humans except a little hunched over at the shoulder.
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- "My point was that I saw something
and what I saw was not human, that was not a gorilla, not bear, not a goat
and it was not a deer," Calonica told Reuters.
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- "Their arms were very long and their
hands were very big."
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- He said he was with his Nepali cook when
he saw the animals.
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- The Yeti, or "abominable snowman,"
is considered a mythical creature though some attempts have been made since
the 1950s to verify the authenticity of tracks left in the Himalayas.
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- Tibetans have believed in Yeti for thousands
of years.
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- Last week, noted Tyrolean adventurer
Reinhold Messner, the first man to climb the world's 14 peaks taller than
26,246 feet, said in Frankfurt that the Yeti was not a humanoid ape but
a large bear.
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