50&100 YEARS AGO

摘要

The problem of the 'Abominable Snowmen' is discussed by S. V. Obruchev... beginning with Waddell's report of 1898 about the hairy wild man called 'Yeti' by the Tibetans. In the Soviet Press during 1957-59 there appeared a number of articles on this subject, especially on the possible presence of the 'Snowman' in the Pamirs. In 1958 a special expedition sent to the Pamirs to study this problem reported negatively... At the same time, numerous recent finds of teeth of a huge anthropoid ape-Gigantopithecus-in China suggest that the Tibetan 'Yeti' and the legendary 'Snowman' of the Pamirs and Mongolia may all refer to the former, or present-day but rare, presence of this type of ape in the high-altitude regions of the Himalayas and the Pamirs.