Case file · Cryptid
Soviet Academy 'snowman' expedition to the Pamirs
After a Soviet Academy of Sciences commission on the 'snowman' was set up at Boris Porshnev's urging, an expedition searched the Pamirs in 1958.
1958 CE · 38.17, 73.96 · status: official
The account
Led by the botanist Kirill Stanyukovich, the team surveyed valleys where Tajik and Kyrgyz herders spoke of hairy wild men (gul-biavan). It found no creature. The commission was wound up, though Porshnev continued to collect reports privately.
The sceptical view
The null result is itself the main documented outcome; the 'relict hominoid' idea was not accepted by specialists.