Yeti footprint photographs to be sold at auction
Published September 27th, 2007
Photographs of a footprint rumoured to be that of the fabled yeti, plus the canvas case of Captain Oates’s sleeping bag from the ill-fated expedition to the South Pole in 1912 are among items to be sold at auction.
They are part of the two-day Exploration & Travel sale at Christie’s in London.
The mysterious footprint was photographed in the Menlung Basin in the Himalayas in 1951.
A team of mountaineers travelled to the region on a reconnaissance mission before attempting to conquer Everest for the first time, a feat achieved two years later.
Eric Shipton recorded the footprint, and Tom Bourdillon, passing on the evidence to his friend Michael Davies, wrote: “Dear Mick, Here are the footprint photos: sorry for the delay. We came across them on a high pass on the Nepal-Tibet watershed during the 1951 Everest expedition.
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