ABSTRACT
A fter h is sixth attempt on Everest, Eric Shipton was exploring the neighbouring Gauri Sankar range with Michael Ward and the Sherpa Sen Tensing. At four o’clock in the afternoon of 8 November 1951 they found a very clear trail of enormous human-looking feet in the powdery snow on the south-western slopes of Menlung-tse. They fol lowed this strange trail for about 1600 m until they lost it in a moraine of ice. Being unable to follow the mysterious creature any farther, they took photographs of its footprints.
