N. A. Tombazi

A Greek photographer and geologist, born in St Petersburg. N. A. Tombazi worked in Calcutta for the Ralli Brothers trading company and lived in Darjeeling. 1925. At 31, he led a small photographic and climbing expedition to the southern glaciers of Kangchenjunga, in the Sikkim Himalaya. Near the Zemu Glacier, he saw an upright figure. His sighting became a link in the yeti chain, running from B. H. Hodgson's shooters in 1832 and the Metoh-Kangmi tracks at the Lhakpa La in 1921 to Eric Shipton's footprint photographs in 1951.

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B. H. Hodgson's shooters and the "wild man" of the Kachár

c. 1832 · The Kachár (Tibetan frontier zone), Nepal

Nepal

Cryptid · Creature · 20 sources

20Thinly documented

The Metoh-Kangmi Tracks at the Lhakpa La: Howard-Bury and the Birth of the Abominable Snowman

September 22, 1921 · Lhakpa La (Lhagba La), near Mount Everest, Tibet

China

Cryptid · Creature · 45 sources · 1 photos

35Partially documented

N. A. Tombazi's Yeti Sighting near the Zemu Glacier, Sikkim Himalaya (1925)

1925 · Southern glaciers of Kangchenjunga, below the Zemu Gap (reported as near the Zemu Glacier), Sikkim

India

Cryptid · Creature · 18 sources

30Partially documented

Greek photographer and geologist, expedition leader and principal witness