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Explorer’s Club board member Catherine Cooke will be discussing her journey to Nepal in search of the Yeti tonight on Dreamland. Ms. Cooke is the neice of Tom Slick, the legendary oilman who conducted the first scientific expeditions in search of the Yeti back in the fifties. Cathy followed in his footsteps, deep into parts of Nepal that remain to this day almost entirely untravelled. Braving an increasingly tense political situation and adverse weather conditions, she made some remarkable discoveries.
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British scientists have done DNA testing on hair found on a tree in Bhutan which may be hair from a Yeti, and have not been able to match it to any known animal. The findings raise the possibility that the hair sample belongs to an as yet undiscovered species.

In Bhutan, an expedition team led by a Yeti hunter searched for the creature in a forest in the eastern part of the country, where the leader was convinced a Yeti was at large. ?He told us that he had found evidence of the Yeti in the hollow of a cedar tree,? said Rob McCall, a zoologist who was on the expedition. McCall?s team removed strands of hair from the tree and took them to the U.K. for DNA analysis.
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