Daniel Loxton and Donald R. Prothero
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- November 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780231153201
- eISBN:
- 9780231526814
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Columbia University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7312/columbia/9780231153201.003.0003
- Subject:
- History, History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
This chapter examines the Yeti of the Himalayas. The name Yeti is the mispronunciation of the Sherpa name for the creature, Yeh-teh (animal of rocky places), or possibly a derivation of Meh-teh ...
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This chapter examines the Yeti of the Himalayas. The name Yeti is the mispronunciation of the Sherpa name for the creature, Yeh-teh (animal of rocky places), or possibly a derivation of Meh-teh (man-bear). The odd and inappropriate name Abominable Snowman originally derived from the Everest Reconnaissance Expedition led by Lieutenant Colonel Charles Howard-Bury in 1921, which was one of the first groups to scout a route for an attempt to climb Mount Everest. Ascending past 20,000 feet of elevation, Howard-Bury and his team were surprised to find tracks in the snow that looked like a human foot. Their Sherpa guides “at once jumped to the conclusion” that it “was the track of a wild, hairy man, and that these men were occasionally to be found in the wildest and most inaccessible mountains.”Less
This chapter examines the Yeti of the Himalayas. The name Yeti is the mispronunciation of the Sherpa name for the creature, Yeh-teh (animal of rocky places), or possibly a derivation of Meh-teh (man-bear). The odd and inappropriate name Abominable Snowman originally derived from the Everest Reconnaissance Expedition led by Lieutenant Colonel Charles Howard-Bury in 1921, which was one of the first groups to scout a route for an attempt to climb Mount Everest. Ascending past 20,000 feet of elevation, Howard-Bury and his team were surprised to find tracks in the snow that looked like a human foot. Their Sherpa guides “at once jumped to the conclusion” that it “was the track of a wild, hairy man, and that these men were occasionally to be found in the wildest and most inaccessible mountains.”
Schaeffer Kurtis R.
- Published in print:
- 2004
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780195152999
- eISBN:
- 9780199849932
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195152999.003.0002
- Subject:
- Religion, Buddhism
The Tibetan culture of Dolpo has been an object of fascination for contemporary European and American scholars for almost five decades. Nevertheless, considerably fewer contemporary scholarly works ...
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The Tibetan culture of Dolpo has been an object of fascination for contemporary European and American scholars for almost five decades. Nevertheless, considerably fewer contemporary scholarly works now are dedicated to Dolpo, to the neighboring region of Mustang, or to the more eastern Sherpa regions at the base of Mount Everest, where anthropological work has been routinely conducted for the past half century. In the modern academic study of Buddhism, the significance of Dolpo was promoted almost entirely through the efforts of a single scholar, David Snellgrove. This summary accords well with the vision of Buddhist life in Dolpo elaborated in the Life of Orgyan Chokyi, and this chapter attempts to enrich Geoffrey Samuel's model with data from the 17th and 18th centuries.Less
The Tibetan culture of Dolpo has been an object of fascination for contemporary European and American scholars for almost five decades. Nevertheless, considerably fewer contemporary scholarly works now are dedicated to Dolpo, to the neighboring region of Mustang, or to the more eastern Sherpa regions at the base of Mount Everest, where anthropological work has been routinely conducted for the past half century. In the modern academic study of Buddhism, the significance of Dolpo was promoted almost entirely through the efforts of a single scholar, David Snellgrove. This summary accords well with the vision of Buddhist life in Dolpo elaborated in the Life of Orgyan Chokyi, and this chapter attempts to enrich Geoffrey Samuel's model with data from the 17th and 18th centuries.
