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“N. A. Tombazi”

Stories3

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

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

Pro early

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

Names5

N. A. Tombazi Person · 3 stories
A Greek photographer and geologist, born in St Petersburg.
Yeti Term · 11 stories
The archive uses Yeti for the snowman of the Himalaya, which Western climbers have reported for a century.
Darjeeling Place · 4 stories
A Himalayan hill district at the edge of the yeti story.
Howard-Bury Person · 3 stories
1921.
Royal Geographical Society Organisation · 3 stories
A learned society of explorers and surveyors, its name runs quietly through some of the archive's strangest expedition stories.