Not quite a yeti then...

Being in Japan always means that I am drawn towards BBC or Guardian news stories involving this area. And so, apparently there's a group of Japanese climbers and yeti hunters up in a mountain in Nepal claiming to have found a footprint of a yeti. Rewind slightly - from the Guardian:

'There appears a global trading industry in sightings of the abominable snowman. Most turn out to be false. In July Yeti hairs were supposedly found in north east India. Upon testing they turned out to belong to a species of Himalayan goat. In August, two men in the US claimed they had found the remains of a half-man-half-ape Bigfoot, which actually turned out to be a rubber gorilla suit.'

I couldn't make up something as funny. Continuing the report:

'An eight-member team claimed the footprints of the snowman or Yeti were about 20 centimetres long and were human in appearance.'

Human in appearance? Could you not put 2 and 2, or even 1 and 1, together and come to the astonishing yet mundane conclusion that they were in fact footprints of a large-footed bloke who took his boots off to have a walk in the snow? Of course not. Doh!