Yeti, Sasquatch & Hairy Giants by David Hatcher Childress

Author:David Hatcher Childress
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: SCB Distributors

A scene from the 1957 film The Abominable Snowman with the body of a yeti.

The colour of the face was dark, and the creature had neither beard nor moustache. The temples were bald and the back of the head was covered by thick, matted hair. The dead creature lay with its eyes open and its teeth bared. The eyes were dark and the teeth were large and even and shaped like human teeth. The forehead was slanting and the eyebrows were very powerful. The protruding jawbones made the face resemble the Mongol type of face. The nose was flat, with a deeply sunk bridge. The ears were hairless and looked a little more pointed than a human being’s with a longer lobe. The lower jaw was very massive. The creature had a very powerful chest and well developed muscles... The arms were of normal length, the hands were slightly wider and the feet much wider and shorter than a man’s.13

In 1957, Alexander Georgievitch Pronin, a hydrologist at the Geographical Research Institute of Leningrad University, participated in an expedition to the Pamirs, for the purpose of mapping glaciers. On August 2, 1957, while his team was investigating the Fedchenko glacier, Pronin hiked into the valley of the Balyandkiik River.

According to Shackley, around midday, he noticed a figure standing on a rocky cliff about 500 yards above him. At first he was surprised, since this area was known to be uninhabited, but then he became frightened as he saw that the creature was not human. It resembled a man but was unusually stooped over. Pronin watched the stocky figure move across the snow, keeping its feet wide apart, and noted that its forearms were longer than a human’s plus its body was covered with reddish grey hair. He claimed that he saw the creature again three days later, walking upright. Since this incident, there have been numerous wildman sightings in the Pamirs, and members of various Soviet scientific expeditions have photographed and taken casts of footprints.13

Today, Tajikistan is an independent country, having declared independence from the Soviet Union in 1991. The country is still little visited, but is promoted as a beautiful, scenic mountain destination with opportunities for mountaineering, rock climbing, hiking, horse and camel riding—and presumably, yeti and almas hunting. In Tajikistan, the yeti or almas is known as the golub-yavan and the ksy-gyik in nearby Kazakhstan to the north. South of the Pamirs in Afghanistan and Pakistan they are known as barmanu.

In 1992 a yeti-almas expedition into the Pamirs was led by the Russian-French cryptozoologist Dr. Marie-Jeanne Kofman (or Koffmann) and the French cryptozoologist Sylvain Pallix. Kofman and Pallix collected hair samples and droppings, and took photographs and casts of footprints. Kofman described the almas as a large hairy creature weighing as much as 500 pounds that could run at a speed of 40 miles per hour.

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