Almas

[NatFoot]

I'm currently watching Expedition Unknown with Josh Gates on an episode looking for Mammoth bones and DNA. 

 

During his travels to Siberia he asks the researcher what wildlife lives out there and they bring up the Russian Bigfoot and make a joke about one wanting to mate with Josh.

 

However, it begs a good question. The Siberian wilderness is the biggest untouched wilderness in the world making up 10% of Earth's landmass.

 

If they exist, they must exist there and it would make sense our own BF came from there.

 

So...any Americans or Canadians partnering with Russians for Siberian missions to document and/or preferably kill one? I'd think the red tape around a kill there might be less than what we'd have here in the US as well.

 

Just a thought.

[norseman]

Ive always wanted to go see Siberia!

[Arvedis]

8 minutes ago, NatFoot said:

I'm currently watching Expedition Unknown with Josh Gates on an episode looking for Mammoth bones and DNA. 

 

During his travels to Siberia he asks the researcher what wildlife lives out there and they bring up the Russian Bigfoot and make a joke about one wanting to mate with Josh.

 

However, it begs a good question. The Siberian wilderness is the biggest untouched wilderness in the world making up 10% of Earth's landmass.

 

If they exist, they must exist there and it would make sense our own BF came from there.

 

So...any Americans or Canadians partnering with Russians for Siberian missions to document and/or preferably kill one? I'd think the red tape around a kill there might be less than what we'd have here in the US as well.

 

Just a thought.

 

 

It is the same chase in Russia/Siberia as it is anywhere, very difficult, especially with their vast terrain.  

 

The comment about mating with one brought to mind Robert Crumb.  I remember reading his comics, including the ones about his female sasquatch fantasies.  He was a very deranged man but his art and humor really resonated in the 70s.

 

 

 

 

[NatFoot]

True. You could say our chase is easier than theirs in the respect to vastness of the wilderness.

 

...thanks for the pics, I guess.

[OldMort]

Crumb was a great artist. Check out Mr. Natural etc...

 

 

[Patterson-Gimlin]

I would venture a guess that it  is much more difficult. The conditions are atrocious. The difficulty of getting to the so called hot spots has to be quite an undertaking. 

I would like to participate in an expedition there myself. I am a fan of that show as well.

[hiflier]

MAN! Looking at those drawings? If Patty had had that waist line........... 

[Arvedis]

Crumb was completely obsessed with big gals. If you can track down the female Sasquatch comics he did, they are hilarious.

Edited November 29, 2018 by Arvedis

[Incorrigible1]

Read up on the conditions and travails of the 1927 investigation of the Tunguska event. Primitive, to say the least.  Mosquitoes, mud, weather, and difficulties beyond belief.

[hiflier]

110 years and still no trees grow there.

[Catmandoo]

I believe that Robert Crumb is still alive.

[Arvedis]

11 hours ago, Catmandoo said:

I believe that Robert Crumb is still alive.

 

My mistake.  I should have checked.  

 

 

[Incorrigible1]

Living in France.  To each their own.  Not my cup of Earl Grey.

[Guest Razumov]

The Almas were heavily studied by the Soviets:

 

http://alamas.ru/eng/e_publ.htm

 

http://alamas.ru/

 

"The Struggle for Troglodytes" is Boris Porshnev's half of " L’Homme de Néanderthal est toujours vivant"

 

https://www.isu.edu/media/libraries/rhi/essays/PORSHNEV-FORMATTED.pdf

 

The work of Marie-Jeanne Koffmann:

https://www.isu.edu/media/libraries/rhi/research-papers/Koffmann_2.pdf

https://www.isu.edu/media/libraries/rhi/research-papers/Koffmann_1.pdf
 

[Madison5716]

I would imagine the logistics of supplying such an expedition would be both complicated and expensive. Thinking about everything that could go wrong on such a remote adventure is daunting. However, I am coming to the belief, based upon my own experiences and (moreso) of researchers in the local area, maybe the bf's are both close in and far out. Maybe Russian almas are similar? I wonder how we could find folks there similar to us here in our interests? Fun to think about. Bet you could explore Alaska or anywhere in the Canadian North easier if you wanted remote.