Bbc Article: Why Don't People See The Yeti Anymore?

[Guest Stan Norton]

Why don't people see the yeti any more? - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-34448314

[Guest Crowlogic]

For the same reason reports of unicorn dragons and griffon are no longer reported.

Edited November 2, 2015 by Crowlogic

[hiflier]

Hello Crowlogic,

 

For the same reason reports of unicorn dragons and griffon are no longer reported.

Yeah, electricity changes things huh

Edited November 3, 2015 by hiflier

[jayjeti]

I remember several years back of reading in some area over there the people believed yetis were killing their livestock so they all started putting poison meat out to rid themselves of them.

[norseman]

Probably extinct.

[Night Walker]

Fear not...

 

The coming of electricity to remote Bhutan will soon be followed by the coming of the internet and then some good young tech-savy folk will learn that they don't have to go far to see the Yeti - the Yeti will come to them. Indeed, they will learn to pay attention to the signs - rock/stick formations, howls, footprints - and they will know that Yeti is in their local area. These young investigators will communicate their findings online and in person - forming investigative teams with cool acronym names.

 

Sightings will then increase in direct proportion to the budding Yeti-research community encouraging more intrepid truth-seekers to join the fold. Many of these Yeti-researchers, themselves, will report possible sightings and experiences with either highly ambiguous evidence or no evidence at all. There'll even be sightings within some villages and even some distant cities. Habituations and psychic communication will be established...

 

Then, Finding Bigfoot will do a special episode in Bhutan...

[Guest DWA]

People don't do what they used to do before Westernization; Westerners laugh at it.  Doesn't invalidate the evidence.  But people do love to cling to their cherished belief that something isn't real.

[Guest]

Decilne in sightings

1). They dont want anymore tourists

2). Moneymaker and co have visited

[Guest DWA]

^^^And don't bank too heavy against those, neither.

[Cliff Barackman]

While I have not been to Bhutan (though I would love to go), I have been to Nepal.  I spent two or three weeks in the country, and most of it was in the Himalayas at a small village called Pangom in the Arun Valley.  I knew the area was remote, but there's nothing like being there to really drive that home.  There were no roads whatsoever.  We had to be helicoptered in to the site and picked up at the end of our stay.  Our gear was transported by these strange yak/cow hybrids escorted by Sherpas who walked for days to get anywhere.  When tensions with a neighboring village arose and police were needed (Bobo was accused of angering the gods and causing a torrential downpour and the resulting landslides), they had to walk from a nearby village downslope and it took them over 12 hours to arrive.  

 

Not only is this area huge, but the terrain is extremely rugged.  The mountain slopes are ridiculously steep and covered with leech-ridden semi-tropical vines with pokey thorns and worse.  The people who live there mostly lack electricity.  They live a subsistence living by catering to tourists "trekking" through the mountains and by growing potatoes, cabbage, and other crops.  Most of the folks who helped us were illiterate.

 

Ranae spent a week before filming in Bhutan and she reported that the situation there was more or less the same in economics and geography.  I feel that my assumptions about Nepal would largely be accurate to describe Bhutan as well. 

 

To me, it's a wonder we hear of ANY yeti sightings.  The people of the Himalayas are far more preoccupied with surviving than reporting sightings to outsiders of animals they know live there.  Most of the mountain folk know people don't think yetis are real, so why should they care what scientists think unless they can make a living guiding for them, or being porters?  They go to bed at dark and wake up at sunrise.  They aren't out in the woods at night.  They are wonderfully simple, happy, and compassionate people living a small life in a huge mountain range.  Who would they report a sighting of a perfectly normal animal to, anyway?  Even better, HOW would they report it (it's a two-week walk to Kathmandu)?  I imagine such an action seems like quite the hassle to a Sherpa trying to put food on his family's table.

 

Just because Westerners don't hear about yeti sightings much doesn't mean they don't happen.  I have to question whether or not yeti sightings are in fact in decline, or have remained more or less quietly steady over the years.  Just because a news article says so, it doesn't make it true.  

 

Just my two cents from having actually been to the region.

 

If you're interested in reading my field notes from Nepal, they are posted on my website here:

http://cliffbarackman.com/finding-bigfoot/finding-bigfoot-episode-guide/finding-bigfoot-season-four/finding-bigfoot-season-four-abominable-snowman/

 

Cliff

[Guest DWA]

All good points, Cliff.  None who haven't been there can grasp it properly.  Cronin makes much the same point in his book:  The places these animals are most likely to be, hardly anyone of our species ever visits, including the locals.    http://www.amazon.com/ARUN-VALLEY-Edward-W-Cronin/dp/0395262992/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1447102879&sr=8-1&keywords=arun+valley

 

Were I one of those living there, I would have long since given up trying to educate the ignorant.  It's beyond me how anyone would think that people are obliged to report a plain fact to people who simply either immediately ask for proof adequate to them, or laugh at them.  

 

And news articles repeat so much trash about this topic, over and over...that I'd look to them last as verification for this.

[Twist]

Thanks for that perspective Cliff. I'm rather ignorant when it comes to the yeti and more so about the landscape and culture of the area. I had no idea it was THAT remote.

[norseman]

I wanna fly my mules over there!

[JDL]

Someone needs to draw a picture of this.

[norseman]