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Near North/Central Nepal

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(International) (Class A) BFRO

October 1977

This report is so old I doubt that it may be of any use. When I was 16 years old I was backpacking alone in the north/central region of Nepal. So many tourist hikers try to get near Everest that I went to a region quite far from it and as remote as I could get to, which was the Langtang Lirung area. I didn't have a tent and took refuge from the cold with yak herders on occasion. One night near Chomki, I heard many long series of howls. I asked the Sherpa guy, through gestures, what the hell that is. And he said "Yeti", with the unremarkable exuberance that a resident of Arizona may have when hearing a coyote sound off. Several days later I was on top of a little hill, looking down in all directions from about 20,000 ft. Below me was a glacier and from the thick brush, a huge, brownish-colored beast came out and climbed slowly across the glacier. This took about 5 minutes. It then went into the thick brush on the other side of the glacier. This was an extremely remote and rugged are...

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U.S. Soldier views unexplainable subject near Bargi Matal

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