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Cosa vide Shipton?
Nel suo libro
The Mount Everest Reconnaissance 1951
(Assalto all'Everest, trad. Fosco Maraini), Shipton racconta il ritrovamento delle impronte e
aggiunge:
“We did not follow them further than
was convenient, a mile or so, for we were carrying heavy loads at the time, and
besides we had reached a particularly interesting stage in the exploration of
the basin. I have in the past found many sets of these curious footprints and
have tried to follow them, but have always lost them on the moraine or rocks at
the side of the glacier. These particular ones seemed very fresh, probably not
more than twenty-four hours old. ... Sen Tensing (a Sherba) who had no doubt
whatever that the creatures (for there had been at least two) that had made the
tracks were Yetis or "wildmen ", told me that two years before, he and a number
of other Sherpas had seen one of them at a distance of about 25 yards at' T'hyangboche.
He described it as halfman and halfbeast, standing about five feet six inches,
with a tall pointed head, its body covered with reddish brown hair, but
with a hairless face. When we reached Katmandu at the end of November, I had him
cross-examined in Nepali (I conversed with him in Hindustani). He left no doubt
as to his sincerity. Whatever it was that he had seen, he was convinced that it
was neither a bear nor a monkey, with both of which animals he was, of course,
very familiar. Of the various theories that have been advanced to account for
these tracks, the only one which is any way plausible is that they were made by
a langur monkey, and even this is very far from convincing, asl believe those
who have suggested it would be the first to admit".
L'incontro con il langur (come riteneva
Shipton) è descritto anche da W.H. Murray, altro membro del gruppo che assieme a M.T. Bourdillon segue Shipton di tre giorni, e riporta nel libro "The Story of
Everest":
“Some of the prints were particularly
clear and must have been left within the last twenty-four hours. Pad marks and
toe marks could be distinctly seen within the footprints, which were twelve
inches long, and where the creature had jumped the smaller crevasses the
scrabble marks of its nails could be seen on the far side.” Murray
aggiunge che lui e Bourdillon “followed the tracks for the better part of two
miles (the animal had chosen the best possible route), until on our second day,
we too had to take to the moraine.”.
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