What do yetis eat

He told them if they ran up the mountain, the yeti's hair would fall back making it easy for him to catch the men. Although no-one in this village has ever been attacked by the yeti, Kama has heard of an incident that took place further east. When a yeti appeared and chased them, one man disappeared. He hid in a small house used for meditation. The yeti didn't eat the man but he was brutally killed. All his body parts were dismembered and thrown away.

Then Kama leads me up a steep path, along the edge of the forest. A cuckoo is singing from a distant tree and a delicious scent from some yellow flowers wafts up from the forest floor. Kama stands on a small rock and points to a mountain pass. There's a grazing ground for cattle. We have to walk beyond that point to see the footprints of the yeti. Kama laughs. There is no way I can walk high up there in the mountains.

In fact very few people go there now. The last person in Chendebji to have seen possible evidence of the yeti is a younger famer called Norbu. The first time was 20 years ago, he says, when he was He was in the mountains with his cattle when he saw a large footprint and the body marks of a yeti in the snow. The mere sight of them made his hair stand on end.

Then, five years later, Norbu says he discovered something very unusual - a lair made out of intricately woven sticks of bamboo. He had then slept inside the den. I could see the marks left by the yeti inside the nest," he says. News of the lair travelled beyond the village and two months later, two men arrived as Norbu was making wood shingles for his house.

They asked to see the lair, so he agreed to stop work and show them. Because it was so far away, the three of them had to spend the night in the yeti's nest. The trip passed off peacefully. That was the last time anyone in Chendebji saw traces of the yeti. Now, says Norbu, people don't need to go up to the mountain to collect wood or graze their animals. It changed my life because I understood life in a different way. There are Yeti legends all over the world. This leads us into the question, what is this human hunger for these humanoid apparitions?

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