Let's YETI

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Japanese climber leaves for Himalayas on hunt for Yeti

... Takahashi, a house-fitter, said the team would set up camp on August 23, and then spend six weeks trying to photograph the Yeti, also known as the abominable snowman. ...

Could this be research for the next Japanese robot animal - the Yebot?

My favourite bit, from a similar piece, is: I'll take pictures and shake hands if I meet him. This may of course be immediately followed by Mr Takahashi being dismembered and eaten by the Yeti.

Gambare !

[Taro Toporific]

[jingai]

Um, guys, I think we found him...


So hard to make out... I hope he's friendly.



Um





Is the chilli powder ready?

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If the yeti is friendly i hope they dont eat the lemon flavored snowcones he'll offer

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:twisted: If the yeti is friendly i hope they dont eat the lemon flavored snowcones he'll offer

It's just a brown bear, so lets eat the yellow snow.

Abominable Snowman really a bear, Japanese mountaineer states in ...
Japan Times, Japan - 26 minutes ago
AOMORI (Kyodo)The legendary Abominable Snowman of the Himalayas is actually a kind of brown bear, a Japanese mountaineer has asserted, casting doubt on an ongoing expedition to track down the beast.

Makoto Nebuka, a member of the Japanese Alpine Club, will soon publish the findings of a 12-year study in which he concludes that the mysterious creature, also known as the yeti, is actually the Himalayan brown bear.

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Abominable Snowman really a bear, Japanese mountaineer states in ...
Japan Times, Japan - 26 minutes ago
AOMORI (Kyodo)

The myth of the Abominable Snowman first attracted worldwide attention in 1951, following the discovery of large footprints. Its image as an apelike monster became fixed when British media introduced it as such in 1954.

They probably had a photo of a topless one on page 3 of the daily rag.

Nevertheless, it may still be fun if Takahashi-san tries to shake hands with one of the bears ...

[Taro Toporific]

Nevertheless, it may still be fun if Takahashi-san tries to shake hands with one of the bears ...

Hmmmm. Polar bears are the only bears that actively hunt human as a food source in their barren environment. But living above the tree line, the Yeti might have similar "needs".

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Japanese climber leaves for Himalayas on hunt for Yeti . . .

Well, 5 years later, and unfortunately coinciding with a U.S. bigfoot hoax, Mr Yoshiteru is at it again:

[SIZE="4"]Japanese team on yeti quest in Nepal[/SIZE]

A team of Japanese adventurers hope to prove the existence of the mysterious yeti in Nepal's mountains, focusing on an area they are convinced is home to the legendary creature.

Tales of a huge half-man-half-ape roaming the high Himalayas are as old as the hills, and local Sherpa stories about the hairy giant have gripped the imaginations of Western adventurers and mountaineers for decades.

Takahashi Yoshiteru, 65, and six other Japanese team members are trekking to Dhaulagiri IV, a 7,661-metre (25,135-foot) peak where they say they have seen traces of the beast on past trips in 1994 and 2003.

"They are going to the same area where I saw the silhouette of a yeti in 2003," expedition spokeswoman Nobuko Koyama told AFP Friday.

They set off from Kathmandu on Thursday.

The expedition members will spend six weeks on the peak and will set up six infra-red camera traps on the mountain 220 kilometres (137 miles) northwest of Kathmandu.

The exploration team is known as the Yeti Project Japan and is being sponsored by Japanese beverage maker Suntory and a leading Japanese daily newspaper, Asahi Shimbum.

The cameras will be automatically triggered if any large animals pass, the spokeswoman said.

"Takahashi is not interested in capturing a yeti, he just wants to get a clear picture of it, and maybe shake its hand," said Koyama . . . more

If there's still no photos after this, perhaps he should change his name to Mr Yo(k)ushittenai.

But if they find one, it will certainly be . . . Suntory time.

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I think I saw one the other day....

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I think I saw one the other day....

Ok...ok...I'll shave and wax, dammit.

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[SIZE="4"]Japanese team finds 'yeti footprints' in Nepal[/SIZE]

A team of Japanese adventurers say they have discovered footprints they believe were made by the legendary yeti, which is said to roam the Himalayan regions of Nepal and Tibet.

"The footprints were about 20 centimetres long and looked like a human's," Yoshiteru Takahashi, the leader of the Yeti Project Japan, said.

Takahashi was speaking after he returned with his seven-member team from their third attempt to track down the half-man-half-ape, tales of which have gripped the imaginations of Western adventurers and mountaineers for decades.

Despite spending 42 days on Dhaulagiri IV -- a 7,661-metre peak where they say they have seen traces of yetis in the past -- the team failed in their prime objective of capturing one on film.

But Takahashi said the footprints were proof enough.

"Myself and other team members have been coming to the Himalayas for years and we can recognise bear, deer, wolf and snow leopard prints and it was none of those," he said.

"We remain convinced it is real. The footprints and the stories the locals tell make us sure that it is not imaginary," he added.

Photographs of the prints have been posted on the expedition's website, http://www.everest.co.jp/yeti2008/.

. . . Despite their lack of success this time, the team plans to continue the quest.

"We will come back as soon as we can, and we will keep coming back until we get the yeti on film," said Takahashi.

I just want to say thanks to the my Takahashi-damashi crew, for a fun week in the mountains (the week before the "magnificent seven" turned up).

See you all next year.



What can I say? It's a great way to spend the off season from making crop circles.