Shipton Yeti Track Anniversary
Posted by: Ken Gerhard on November 10th, 2015
Now 64 years since the famous Shipton Yeti Tracks were found and photographed. I’ve read allegations that mountaineer Eric Shipton was known to be a practical joker and probably faked the entire event. But, quite recently I watched videotaped interviews of both Shipton and his team doctor Michael Ward in their later years. They both came across as extremely serious and credible… standing behind the authenticity of the footprints. There are no deathbed confessions that I am aware of from either gentleman and the physiology of the foot makes sense for a heavy-set hominoid that lives in high forested valleys. The key thing is to disregard a distortion in the heel… which makes it appear longer, broader and more rounded than it probably is.
About Ken Gerhard
Ken has investigated reports of mysterious beasts around the world including Bigfoot, the Loch Ness Monster, the Chupacabra, giant winged creatures and even werewolves. In addition to appearing in three episodes of the television series Monster Quest (History Channel), Ken is featured in the History Channel special The Real Wolfman, as well as Legend Hunters (Travel Channel/A&E), Paranatural (National Geographic), Ultimate Encounters (truTV) and William Shatner's Weird or What? (History Television). His credits include multiple appearances on Coast to Coast AM, major news broadcasts and Ireland’s Newstalk radio, as well as being featured in major books and in articles by the Associated Press, Houston Chronicle and Tampa Tribune. Ken is author of the books Big Bird: Modern Sightings of Flying Monsters and A Menagerie of Mysterious Beasts: Encounters with Cryptid Creatures, as well as the co-author of Monsters of Texas (with Nick Redfern) and has contributed to trade publications including Fate Magazine, Animals and Men, The Journal of the British Columbia Scientific Cryptozoology Club and Bigfoot Times. He currently lectures and exhibits at events across America. Born on Friday the 13th of October, 1967 (exactly one week before the famous Patterson Bigfoot film was shot), Ken has traveled to twenty-six different countries on six continents and most of the United States. An avid adventurer, he has camped along the Amazon, explored the Galapagos, hiked the Australian Outback and has visited many ancient and mysterious sites, from Machu Pichu to Stonehenge.
