Why don’t we see yetis anymore? I may have found the answer

Throughout the 20th century, Himalayan travel writing has been peppered with stories of yeti sightings and yeti footprints.

In a previous post, published in my anthology Sherpa Hospitality as a Cure for Frostbite, I described how the great Reinhold Messner believed he’d seen a yeti in a clearing in Tibet in 1986, and how Eric Shipton photographed a yeti’s footprint in the 1950s. In another post, I described how Bruce Chatwin interviewed a lady who’d watched a yeti murder her yaks in the Gokyo Va...