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vikingwolf's review
2.0
This is a very misleading title which makes you thinbk that he had an encounter with a Sasquatch/Bigfoot type monster and then went looking for more. That is NOT what this book is about.
He is clear that what he saw was an animal not a legendary monster. He believes he saw a rare bear and spends the book looking for this bear which sometimes appears in local zoos, and is seen often in the mountains. The book is him asking questions about these bears, talking about local legends, seeing footprints and going camping and trekking to find more people to ask the same questions to. We also get long passages about local culture, history of Tibet and Nepal, anti communist lectures, Nazi occult studies and Sherpa tales.
If you are interested in the culture and history of these countries you might like this. But if you are looking for a story about wild Sasquatch, then this is not for you.
He is clear that what he saw was an animal not a legendary monster. He believes he saw a rare bear and spends the book looking for this bear which sometimes appears in local zoos, and is seen often in the mountains. The book is him asking questions about these bears, talking about local legends, seeing footprints and going camping and trekking to find more people to ask the same questions to. We also get long passages about local culture, history of Tibet and Nepal, anti communist lectures, Nazi occult studies and Sherpa tales.
If you are interested in the culture and history of these countries you might like this. But if you are looking for a story about wild Sasquatch, then this is not for you.
fpernett's review
2.0
I got interested in the beginning as Reinhold Messner described his first encounter with a chemo. And could understand why he got fascinated. But, I think, he worried too much about his credibility and he concluded simplistically that what people called the Yeti was just a brown bear.
Liked the way he described the landscapes around Tibet, Nepal, and India but I was expecting a little more from someone like him
Liked the way he described the landscapes around Tibet, Nepal, and India but I was expecting a little more from someone like him
kazgriki's review
4.0
Fascinating account of one man's attempt to get to the truth of the yeti myth. Having encountered a tall, biped creature unlike he'd every seen before in Tibet in 1986, Reinhold Messner was convinced he had seen a new species. Was this the yeti of legend, half man half ape? Over the following fifteen or so years he returned again and again to explore the region. There he talked to nomads, priests and sherpas. They spoke of 'chemo', an elusive omnivore which stood seven feet tall on its hind legs and could snap a goat's spine in two. Was this the same creature he had seen? Suffice to say Messner satisfied his curiosity and mine about this mythical beast.
annainthedark's review
adventurous
medium-paced
2.0
I was given this book as a 10 year old, for doing well in a competition at school to build a model viking longboat. I would not recommend this book for ten year olds. I am not sure I would recommend this book to anyone. I am sure I would not recommend it to anyone who is not already very very interested in climbing or the yeti. And if you are interested in climbing or the yeti, there are probably better books. I did learn some cool things about Tibet, but again, probably better books out there.
Also, the guy spends the whole book talking to people living in and around the himalayas about the yeti. They are his number one source of information. And then he ends the book by saying "the himalayas are a region in which humans do not belong." What? If it weren't for humans in that region... you wouldn't have a book. What a dick move.
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