The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-12-25
LONDON, Dec. is.

LONDON, Dec. Is.
-HE most surprising result Of the
attempted exploration Of Mount
: Everest has besn the discovery Of
. ,rscs q Wild men living amid the per.
pstuai SHOWS.
They are known In the Tibstan language.
- the "Abominabls snowmsn." on account
OF their fsrocity and the savage deeds they
commit whom they come in oontsct with
the more or less civilized inhabitants Of
the country.
1t has been suppossd that all the wild
primitive races q the world were known,
but here h one Of the most peculiar ever
discovered and hitherto unrecorded IN
travellers reports. Hairy Anus. Bush
mel, Patagonians. African Pygmies and
'cannibai Amasons" have In turn excited
our curiosity, but the -Abominabls Snow
men" are more remarkable than any Of
them. ~, ~ d,
A great deal Of mystery stili sufrounds
the "Abominable Snowmen." and this. II
il believed. viii not be cleared up until
the exploration Of Mount Everest IL finally
completed Are they really . distinct
race or are they colonies OF exiles from
surrounding countriesf How do they man.
age to sustain life amid the bitter lcoid
and perpetual snows3 These and many
other questions remain to be answered
Colonel Howard Bury, the leader OF the
Mount Everest expedition. states that At
an elevation exceeding .the limits Of pos
sibfe habitation" he observed tracks re-
sembling those Of q barefoot man lead.
ing up the glacier He did not at first re-
port the fact. because he saw no man and
he thought that the tracks might be, those
of some animal which had been altered by
the weather into human shape.
The numerous statements Of the. coolies
who accompanied the expedition, and OF
many Tibetans and several white expior-
ers about the "Abominable Snowmen"
have led Colonel Bury to report what he
saw.
The coolies who accompanied the Bury
expedition state that they not only saw
the footprints. but saw the wild men hang
Ing around in the twilight and ready to
attack the explorers If they saw an oppor-
tunity.
The coolies report that the wild men
live entirely without clothes and are pro
tected from the intense cold only by their
long. thick hair.
Investigation has further revealed that
the existence of these people is known to
many of the surrounding Tibetans and
that other white men had heard of them.
"Meetoh Ksngmi." which means "Abomin-
abba Snowmen." Small colonies of the
wild men are, said by the villagers at the
base of Mount Everest to live on the
slopes OF Everest and OF the neighboring
peaks OF Chumalhari and Karola.
Some Of the natives explain that the wild
men are murderers who have been driven
from civilized communities and forced to
live in waste places. The colony on Mount
Karola is said to be Of this character, and
il is reported that these exiles sometimes
descend into the plains and rob the In.
habitants.
But this explanation does not account
fo- the statements that the "Snowmen" are
Wild and clad only In their own hair. Only
a race with ages Of adaptation to environ.
ment, II is argued, couid live above the per.
petual snowline and suStain life on the
few animals and birds that are found
there.
Moreover. other white explorers have
inst come forward with new evidence con.
corning the existence Of . race Of Snow
men, who live naked in the intense cold.
william Hugh Knight. one Of the best-known
explorers OF Tibet. who Is nov In London,
read the report about the human foot.
rr'nts ~esn by the Bury expedition and
made the sta ement:
Shortly before the last Tibetan war I