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Where Ganges, woods, Himalayan caves, and men dream God-I am hallowed; my body touched that...
...theory supported by geologists, who are aware of the continual upthrusting of the earth's crust in India's lofty Himalayan range...
India's Prime Minister Nehru convinced the people in remote Gangtok, capital of the northern province of Sikkim, that he really wanted to see them. He arrived for a visit grim and weary after a 27-mile pony ride, which included crossing a 15,000-foot Himalayan pass on the old trade route to Tibet...
After the first report, the legend of the Snowmen was unheard of for nearly 16 years. Then another roving Englishman found the tracks of a barefooted "man," high in the valley of the upper Salween, the "Black River of Tibet." Soon afterward another high-altitude Himalayan traveler came across a similar line of tracks. He persuaded his sulky porters to follow them in the direction the toes pointed. Even the terrified Tibetans felt fairly safe: they knew that if a man followed an Abominable Snowman's tracks with the toes pointing forward, he was only going where the Snowman...
...London's Natural History Museum, scientists read Sen's description and decided it sounded familiar. Rummaging around in the museum basement, they found the dusty carcass of a Langur monkey, a four-toed beast that lives on the snowy Himalayan slopes near Katmandu, capital of Nepal. To a frightened Tibetan, announced the scientists, the Langur might well look half-human and thoroughly abominable...