

Japanese team to leave on quest for Yeti
Tuesday, July 15, 2003. 2:56pm (AEST) Australian Broadcasting Corporation
A 60-year-old Japanese mountaineer will form a seven-member party and leave for a two-month Himalayan mission next month in quest for the legendary and elusive Yeti... Yoshiteru Takahashi, 60, will leave Japan for Nepal on August 10 ...Takahashi climbed the Dhaulagiri peaks twice in the 1970s and once in 1982...returned there in 1994 for the sole purpose of finding the Yeti - in vain.
He failed to film the Yeti although he smelled a strong animal scent and found barefoot footprint...
The party is being provided with logistic support from the major Japanese daily Asahi.