The name Abominable Snowman was coined in 1921, the year Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Howard-Bury led the 1921 British Mount Everest reconnaissance expedition which he chronicled in Mount Everest The Reconnaissance, 1921. In the book, Howard-Bury includes an account of crossing the Lhakpa La at where he found footprints that he believed were probably caused by a large 'loping' grey wolf, which in the soft snow formed double tracks rather like those of a bare-footed man. He adds that his Sherpa guides at once volunteered that the tracks must be that of 'The Wild Man of the Snows', to which they gave the name 'metoh-kangmi'. Metoh translates as man-bear and Kang-mi translates as snowman.