Siberian region 'confirms Yeti exists' ..Physorg reports?

[Ichingcarpenter]

They are usually pretty good with their science news, but I won't put this in our science forum cause its just not worth it. Anyway be sure to read the comments in the link, at lot of Vladimir Putin jokes. The story really came from ATF news agency.


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A Russian region in Siberia on Monday confidently proclaimed that its mountains are home to yetis after finding "indisputable proof" of the existence of the hairy beasts in an expedition.


The local administration of the Kemerovo region in the south of Siberia said in a statement on its website that footprints and possibly even hair samples belonging to the yeti were found on the research trip to its remote mountains.
"During the expedition to the Azasskaya cave, conference participants gathered indisputable proof that the Shoria mountains are inhabited by the 'Snow Man'," the Kemerovo region administration said in a press-release.

The expedition was organised after Kemerovo's governor invited researchers from the United States, Canada, and several other countries to share their research and stories of encounters with the creature at a conference.
"They found his footprints, his supposed bed, and various markers with which the yeti marks his territory," the statement said. The collected "artifacts" will be analysed in a special laboratory, it said.

The region, the administrative center of Kuznetsk coal basin, has pursued the elusive Yeti for several years as it tries to develop tourism into its mostly industrial economy.
Considering the latest findings, the region may "create a special research center to study the Yeti" in the regional university and "create a journal" dedicated to the science of the Yeti, the administration's statement said.


http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-10-siberian-region-yeti.html


I had to see where the region was in Russia in comparison to India and Tibet.

[eShirl]

1. I'm sure they (Kemerovo) are doing what they can with a small tourism budget.

ah hah....

"The region, the administrative center of Kuznetsk coal basin, has pursued the elusive Yeti for several years as it tries to develop tourism into its mostly industrial economy."

[Ichingcarpenter]

2. It looks from the map that they need the tourism

Send Putin the destroyer it will guarantee his election.

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