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Yak in Himalayas

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Near Kyanjin Gompa, Nepal - high in the Himalaya Mountains on my way from Langtang, Nepal to the Langshisha glacier, I found this yak grazing near the summertime huts of the herdsmen.

Here's a quote from a book by Jamie McGuinness entitled "Trekking in Langtang Helambu & Gosainkund": When Tilman was walking up to Langshisha in 1949 he noted: In the course of the conversation these herdsmen confirmed the existence, or rather the recent presence of, the Abomitable Snowman in the Langtang, pointing out to us a cave which had been his favourite haunt. Six years previously these beasts (whose existence is surely no longer a matter of conjecture) had been constant visitors but had apparently migrated elsewhere. The small kind, the size of a child, they called 'chumi', while the big fellow went by the name of 'yilmu'. Since sceptics like to affirm that the tracks made by these creatures are in reality bear tracks, it is worth mentioning that the herdsmen were able to show some fresh bear tracks."

Although it was the Langtang Valley that I visited during my trek in Nepal - and on to Langshisha glacier - I failed to see either chumi or yilmu.

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