A review by kazgriki
My Quest for the Yeti: Confronting the Himalayas' Deepest Mystery by Reinhold Messner

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.