FT261

I’m always pleased to receive an update of an ostensibly long-forgotten cryptozoological story, especially when it’s a personal favourite of mine, like this one. As reported by Heuvelmans, myself, and others, back in 1953 a Tibetan lama called Chemed Rigdzin Dorje Lopu announced that he had personally examined the mummified bodies of two yetis – one at the monastery at Riwoche in the Tibetan province of Kham, the other in the monast­ery at Sakya, southern Tibet. According to Heuvelmans’s account of this lama’s very interesting claim: “They were enormous monkeys about 2.40m high. They had thick flat skulls and their bodies were covered with dark brown hair about 3 to 5cm long.