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Wednesday, September 29, 2010

YETI. WANT TIBET?

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Owen from Fortean Times sent us this link to a photograph, which is claimed to be of a yeti. It was taken in Tibet....
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8 comments:

Anonymous said...

Interesting. The face is rather compelling but the body seems to merge with the rock face optically. And the colours are all of a salad.

From the head and face alone I would want to say this is something important and very welcome support of my stance on the subject; but then I look at the body lower down and it is sadly unconvincing to me. So basically I am not very positive about this being a real image of a live mountain-dwelling ape, although I certainly would LIKE to be able to say so.

11:46 AM
Anonymous said...

Firstly, I'd quite like to see the original image file; NOT a copy as that one is, but the actual file as it came off the camera. The reason here is so I can see what camera took the photo, what the settings were and so on.

Secondly, I am profoundly unconvinced by the image presented here. The rock face looks to have a fault-line running down the middle of it, with a cave mouth in the middle of this. There's marks of a stream of water coming (or sometimes flowing) from the cave, so obviously there's a cave of some sort there.

So, knowing that there's a void of some sort in the hillside there, when I see a ragged tall thin dark shape, I am inclined by Occam's Razor to think "Cave mouth" and not "Unknown large ape".

3:04 PM
Adam Davies said...

I agree with the previous comments.I wish I were wrong,and whilst I agree the photo merits further,more comprhensive analysis, my initial impression is that of a cave mouth.My view in no way though,should be taken as a critiscism of the person who took the photo,I welcome all field research on the subject, and would encourage a return to inspect the cave again.

9:01 PM
Jon Jacobs said...

Hi everyone. I'm the photographer so I'm taking the opportunity to address the comments.

1st @ Dr Holdsworth. There was an upload limit for file size on th website. The original photo is approx 3.3MB size. You can email me for the original at jonjacobs1976@gmail.com. The camera settings are also listed in the current Forum, 'Size of the subject'. Your views on water run-off are interesting. I guess that would account for the paths, though these paths would also allow access
to the cave and to be standing in that position.

6:34 PM
Jon Downes said...

I would like to stress, by the way, that the headline was an excuse for me to use a stupid pun that I have had floating around for years, rather than a comment on the piucture..

6:56 PM
Richard Freeman said...

The yeti is supposed to walk errect rather than on all fours. Though if this is a yeti, it may be crouching.
Even if this is just a trick of the light i'd like to thank Jon Jacobs for comming forward with it. Someday, someone will get the evidence we are call waiting for.
Fingers crossed for India!

1:10 AM
Anonymous said...

Err, no. Its just a rock.

9:24 AM
Jon Jacobs said...

@ Richard Freeman - I never said it was a 'Yeti' ;-) That headline comes from the Fortean Times boys.

@ Bilbo - wow such certainty! Is that you in the photo as you seem to know the area intimately!

4:12 PM

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