Yeti · Barun Khola, बागमती प्रदेश · 1972
XX-1972ID case-5902260bd7Added to map Oct 14, 2026
- Creature
- Yeti
- When
- May 17, 1972to the day
- Where
- Barun Khola, बागमती प्रदेशto approximate level
- Reports
- 4 documents1 independent
The account
[name] reports that he and two Sherpa assistants discovered large, bipedal footprints in firm snow near their camp on a high alpine ridge in Nepal, which the Sherpas identified as Yeti prints.
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Details
- Creature
- Yeti
- Where
- Barun Khola, Hariharpurgadhi-07, हरिहरपुरगढी गाउँपालिका, सिन्धुली जिल्ला, बागमती प्रदेश, नेपाल
mapped to approximate level · from the report's own words - When
- May 17, 1972
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source (4 documents; copies and reprints are not confirmations)
- Added to map
- Oct 14, 2026
- Case id
- case-5902260bd7
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Source trail (4)
Down the rabbit hole → 4 documents, and how they connect
Every link goes to where we found the account. The earliest we found is marked; it is the earliest found, not necessarily the original.
- The Yeti - NOT a bear!
Reddit · 2019-05-01
Earliest found, not necessarily the original. - My favorite cryptid evidence: The Mcneely-Cronin tracks
Reddit · 2025-07-10 - My favorite Relict Hominoid evidence: The Mcneely-Cronin Tracks.
Reddit · 2025-07-10
Show 1 more source
- Excerpt from a paper I wrote about the Yeti in college.
Reddit · 2026-08-31
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.
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