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That was one of the U.S. State Department’s cardinal rules for American fortune seekers, proto-cryptozoologists and adventurers who were making the trek into the Himalayas and hoped to encounter the ...

as well as the name 'abominable snowman', are western inventions from the 1950s, used to fetishize and sensationalise the yeti in order to sell newspapers and films. Drawing of mountaineers ...