Yeti · Himalayas · 1960
HIM-1960ID case-31c8fe48e9Fallback locationAdded to map Oct 8, 2026
- Creature
- Yeti
- When
- Nov 1960to the month
- Where
- Himalayasfallback location
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
The article reports on the legend of the yeti in the Himalayas, citing historical sightings and tracks found by Sherpas and explorers like Sir Howard Bury and Eric Shipton.
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
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Details
- Creature
- Yeti
- Where
- Himalayas
mapped to country level · from the region named in the report (exact place not found)
Fallback location (drawn hollow on the map): this is the region named in the report (exact place not found). - When
- Nov 1960
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Oct 8, 2026
- Case id
- case-31c8fe48e9
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Source trail (1)
Every link goes to where we found the account. The earliest we found is marked; it is the earliest found, not necessarily the original.
- Image 11 of Milford chronicle (Milford, Del.), November 18, 1960
Newspaper · 1960-11-18
Earliest found, not necessarily the original.
Further reading
- Abominable Snowmen: Legend Come to Life, Ivan T. Sanderson (1961)
Early comparative study of wild-man reports worldwide.
Borrow on Internet Archive - Tom Slick and the Search for the Yeti, Loren Coleman (1989)
Borrow on Internet Archive - On the Track of Unknown Animals, Bernard Heuvelmans (1959)
The founding work of cryptozoology.
Borrow on Internet Archive - Cryptozoology A to Z, Loren Coleman and Jerome Clark (1999)
Encyclopedia of reported creatures.
Borrow on Internet Archive
Books we have not reproduced: borrow them free at archive.org. Listing a book is not an endorsement of its claims.