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