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being around these sort of altitudes. And we're interested in trying to find out exactly what it is, irrespective of whether it turns out to be a bear or a monkey or an abominable snowman. Well, the local people certainly claim they've heard it and they say it's

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rather squeaky sort of voice, really an unusual sort of sound. And if they hear it, they get undercover pretty quickly. I think one of the national magazines just a few weeks ago had a picture of a skull cap that was supposed to have been made from

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the scalp of Yes, that that was a japanese expedition that's just been there recently. And I was quite interested in the picture because I have I have seen photographs taken of another scalp which has been held in the tango t monastery in the Everest region. And

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certainly the two photographs are almost identical. The skull, if it is a skull is most unusual in that it's rather pointed in shape, which actually is how the local people, the shepherds will describe the abominable snowman. What will you do if you see him? I don't

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know if he doesn't run like that, I should think, but we are actually going into some extent prepared on the on the off chance of that. Such a creature does exist. And we're taking with us sort of a gun that shoots a hypodermic syringe, which puts

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to sleep any grease, you see. So our idea is that if we should happen to strike this new being, you put him to sleep with a shot of his hypodermic and get an opportunity to get up to him without any great danger. It's a very good

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idea. You have a cage or something to put him in. We're not going to, we're not especially optimistic that we're actually taking a Cajun to bring him out in. But of course, first we've got to find him, then we can worry about doing anything else. You

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must have had letters from people all over the world who wanted to go on the expedition. I've had quite a lot of uh letters and telephone calls and so on. Um ranging I think from people who whose only qualification really is a great deal of enthusiasm

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and not much else To just recently in Chicago. I I got a letter the other morning from, written in a rather shaky hand and it was a little boy of seven and this little boy of seven wanted to come on the expedition. And he pointed out

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that his main qualification was that he was extremely good at catching snakes. You might be a great help. You know, if you find the snowman, maybe the same techniques might work. Well indeed. Well, I wrote back anyway, said that in a few years time he should

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apply again