In 1951, British explorer Eric Shipton and his climbing team came across a set of mysterious snow tracks on Menlung Glacier, along the Nepal-Tibet border near Mount Everest. Shipton’s Sherpa colleague, Shen Tensing, told him that the tracks, which resembled a human footprint with a very large toe, belonged to a “Yeti” – a hair-covered […]

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Interviews and articles on the theme of exploration—and its fruits.
Posts
- Robert Twigger on Walking The Great North Line
- Les Stroud on ‘Survivorman Bigfoot’
- Daniel C. Taylor on the Search for the Yeti
- The North Coast Trail of Vancouver Island
- Mike Danks on Vancouver’s North Shore Rescue
- The Australian Star Mountains Expedition in Papua New Guinea
- Lost in the Boreal Forest
- Adnan Khan on The Rickshaw Circus
- Circumskiing Mount Logan
- Griffin and Tyrrell on Meaning, Mysticism and Mental Health
- Mona Hallak on ‘Beit Beirut’
- Traditional Deadfall Trap
- Liddle on Kluane National Park
- Richard Bello on Climate Change
- Richard Nahas on Integrative Medicine
- Review: ‘Godhead: The Brain’s Big Bang’
- Open Air Books and Maps
- Muhammed al-Idrisi
- Review: ‘Mirrors of the Unseen’