Yoshiteru Takahashi, the expedition leader, who climbs as a hobby, is on his second yeti hunt. He says he found humanlike footprints made by a “rather large animal” in a cave about 15,000 feet up Dhaulagiri on a previous expedition in 1994. “I want to find out what made those footprints,” Takahashi said. “They definitely didn’t belong to a bear.”
Leaving Sunday, the expedition plans to “ambush” the elusive creature, believed by Takahashi to be some kind of primate, by setting up about 15 cameras that are automatically activated by infrared sensors.
Takahashi, 60, described his expedition, which has no backing from Japan’s academic community, as “just bunch of climbers” who had all seen unfamiliar footprints on past ascents of the Dhaulagiri range.
“I don’t consider this a mystery,” he said. “The yeti exists. I just want to figure out what kind of animal it is.”
Besides Takahashi, many people claim to have seen a yeti or its tracks here. In 1971, Japanese alpinist Mitsuhiko Yoshino says he ventured across an animal about 1.5 meters tall with a hairy body on Dhaulagiri mountain. He says he was no more than 20 meters away from it. In July 1975, adventurer Norio Suzuki says he saw five animals that looked like gorillas in the area. Some were big; some were small, he said. And two months later, Michiko Imai, a doctor and a member of Takahashi’s expedition team, found footprints the size of about a 2-year-old child’s in the snow. She found bigger footprints higher up in mountain.
Other methods for finding a yeti are also available for the less physically inclined who don’t want to tackle the inclines of mountains.
Jon-Erik Beckjord, head of the Sasquatch Research Project of Berkeley CA, USA, is trying to reach Suntory’s Yoshiteru Takahashi who is
on an expedition in Nepal trying to find the Nepal Yeti. Beckjord says: “We have an excellent site for photographing the American Yeti, and we have done so on many expeditions starting in 1978
up to 2002. It is in the Sierra Mountains, at 6000
feet, and we invite Mr. Takahashi to see the photos here.”
“We call them “first alien photos” because all 7 of the Yetis
photographed by our MIRANDA and VIVITAR
35mm cameras appear to be foreign to our normal
zoology, but still do exist. I can work with Mr. Takahashi in Nepal using
techniques we used successfully in the Sierras
to bring the creatures out, and also we can
work with him if he wants to come to California
to our special camp site. We have done this work for 27 years and can be reached at 510-644-0464″.
Email is seeker@stealthaccess.net
Wonder if you’ll ever post here again, I was going to e-mail you but is probably a waste of time. I just was wondering why I have yet to see any paranormal photos or cryptozoology photos that are clear, like most normal pictures. I suffered through many Art Bell shows for years, to hear the very rare shows in which he had a physicist or someone more credible than psychics or people talking about faces on Mars on. And yet, all the evidence they ever give, like yours, is full of fuzz.