article_snippet: Scientists have eluded explorers, hunters and scientists who have been searching the Himalayan mountains for yeti for over a century.
article_snippet: This footprint taken by British explorer Eric Shipton in 1954 is regarded as one of the best pieces of evidence for the existence of a yeti and new research on hair samples shows that the mystery is far from being solved .
article_snippet: first accounts of yetis emerged before the 19th century from Buddhists .
article_snippet: They . depicted the mysterious beast as having similarities to an ape and . carrying a large stone as a weapon while making a whistling sound.
article_snippet: began making their own trips to the region to try and capture the Yeti.
article_snippet: samples were also found that were believed to have come from a the Yeti .
article_snippet: mountaineer Don Whillans heard some odd cries which mountaineer Don Whillans guide attributed to a a Yeti's call.
article_snippet: This means that the identity of the species behind yeti sightings is still a mystery.
article_snippet: Dr Eliécer Gutiérrez, an evolutionary biologist at the Smithsonian Institution as odd is that an “experienced hunter”, who was very familiar with the Brown Bear, could mistake the animal that he had shot for anything other than a bear of some sort and, specifically, for a “yeti”. '
article_snippet: An artists reconstruction of what a yeti may look like based on reports and descriptions from past sightings .
article_snippet: Eric Shipton captured images of what some believe is a Yeti footprint .
article_snippet: 1948: Peter Byrne claimed to have discovered a Yeti footprint in India .
article_snippet: Supposed Yeti feces were collected and analysed.
article_snippet: Supposed Yeti feces were found to contain a parasite that could not be identified.
article_snippet: : Sir Edmund mounted an expedition to collect and analyse physical evidence of Yeti.
article_snippet: : Daniel Taylor and Robert Fleming Jr led a Yeti expedition into Nepal's Barun Valley where footprints were discovered.
article_snippet: : A hoax Yeti movie called The Snow Walker Film was aired .
article_snippet: : U.S TV programme Destination Truth reported finding Yeti-like footprints in the Everest region.
article_snippet: : Japanese adventures photographed footprints thought to have been left by YetiYeti.
article_snippet: : At a conference in Russia , scientists and enthusiasts claimed to have 95 per cent proof of Yeti's existence.
article_snippet: : British climber Mike Rees captures an image of footprints in the Himalayas thought to offer further proof of the Yeti's existence.
highlights_snippet: But scientists are baffled how hunters confused the fur with hair of a yeti .