Yuksom

Dense rhododendron scrub prevented any further investigations as to the direction of the footprints, and threatening weather compelled me to resume the march.

From inquiries I made a few days later at Yaksum on my return journey, I gathered that no man had gone in the direction of Dzongri since the beginning of the year." End quote.

In the decades that followed, there were several more mountaineers who claimed to have spotted Yeti footprints in the mountains of the Himalayas.

In 1944, explorer C.R. Cook even took some photographs of the cryptic prints, placing his wife's sunglasses next to them for a size comparison.