Case file · Cryptid
John Hunt's tracks at the Zemu Gap
In autumn 1937 the future leader of the 1953 Everest expedition, John Hunt, and Pasang Sherpa found footprints on the approaches to the Zemu Gap above Sikkim's Zemu Glacier, thought to belong to a pair of yetis.
1937 CE · 27.70, 88.20 · status: account
The account
The Zemu Glacier area produced a run of reports: Tombazi's sighting in 1925, Hunt's tracks in 1937 and Peter Byrne's footprint in 1948. Hunt's standing gave the tracks wide attention.
The sceptical view
Snow tracks of known animals enlarge and distort as they melt; no photograph settles the identity.
Connections in the atlas
- Tombazi's sighting near Zemu Glacier
- The Cookes' giant prints
- Shipton's yeti footprint photographs
- Yeti