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Yeti
Description: the ape-like Yeti is very similar in description to Bigfoot and the
Yeren. Although it is slightly smaller, around 5 1/2 -9 feet and 400-800 lbs.
Their coat is usually grey, but red and browns are normal. They have stout necks, wide mouths, and their feet are shorter and broader than that of a similar sized bigfoot.
Contrary to what many think, The Yeti does not live on the mountain tops,
but rather in the fertile valleys below, Although they are no doubt a good rock climbing ape. The reason why there are some mountain sightings is probably because they need to cross parts of mountains to get to the next valley.
Location: Sporadically across Siberia, Tibet, Nepal, West Siberia, China, The Pamir Mts, Himalayas.
What Are They: The Yeti is probably a relative to Bigfoot and the Yeren.
I would think they would be more closely related to the Yeren, because of
geographical closeness. Gigantopithecus is the usual guess as to what species the Yeti may be. Almost all people agree they are an ape.
Reports:
"... I stopped to breathe my horse on an open clearing and dismounted, loosened the girths, and watched the sun, which was just about setting. While I was musing I heard a slight sound, and looking round, I saw, some 15 or 20 paces away, a figure which I now suppose must have been one of the hairy men that the Everest Expedition talk about and the Tibetans, according to them, call the "Abdominable Snowmen".
Speaking to the best of my recollection, he was a little under 6ft. high, almost stark naked in that bitter cold - it was the month of November. He was a kind of pale yellow all over ... a shock of matted hair on his head, little hair on his face, highly splayed feet, and large, formidable hands. His muscular development in the arms, thighs, legs, back and chest were terrific. He had in his hand what seemed to me to be some form of primitive bow. He did not see me, but stood there, and I watched for some five or six minutes. So far as I could make out, he was watching some man or beast far down the hillside. At the end of some five minutes he started off at a run down the hill, and I was impressed with the tremendous speed at which he travelled..."
Mr. William Hugh Knight's encounter from Still Living? Yeti, Sasquatch and the Neanderthal Enigman by Myra Shackley.