Bernard G. Campbellin wrote: " That Gigantopithecus is in fact extinct has been questioned by those who believe it survives as the Yeti of the Himalayas and the Sasquatch of the north-west American coast.

Ley's collection Exotic Zoology is of some interest to cryptozoology, as he discusses the Yeti and sea serpents, as well as relict dinosaurs.

The majority of mainstream criticism of cryptozoology is thus directed towards the search for megafauna cryptids such as Bigfoot, the Yeti, and the Loch Ness Monster, which appear often in popular culture, but for which there is little or no scientific support.

Human members in the Culture setting vary in size, colour and shape as in reality, and with possibly even further natural differences: in the novella The State of the Art, it is mentioned that a character " looks like a Yeti ", and that there is variance among the Culture in minor details such as the number of toes or of joints on each finger.

In " Moe Goes from Rags to Riches " ( 2012 ), an infant Moe is even depicted living on Mount Everest as the son of a Yeti.

The Yeti or Abominable Snowman is an ape-like cryptid said to inhabit the Himalayan region of Nepal, and Tibet.

The word Yeti is derived from ), a compound of the words " rocky ", " rocky place " and () " bear ".

There is a famous Yeti hoax, known as the Snow Walker Film.

The team's leader, Yoshiteru Takahashi claims to have observed a Yeti on a 2003 expedition and is determined to capture the creature on film.

According to Messner, the Yeti is actually the endangered Himalayan brown bear, Ursus arctos isabellinus, which can walk both upright or on all fours.

In 2003, Japanese researcher and mountaineer Dr. Makoto Nebuka published the results of his twelve year linguistic study, postulating that the word " Yeti " is a corruption of the word " meti ", a regional dialect term for a " bear ".

However, the Yeti is generally described as bipedal, and most scientists believe Gigantopithecus to have been quadrupedal, and so massive that, unless it evolved specifically as a bipedal ape ( like Oreopithecus and the hominids ), walking upright would have been even more difficult for the now extinct primate than it is for its extant quadrupedal relative, the orangutan.

* In various Looney Tunes cartoons, Hugo the Abominable Snowman is a Yeti.

* In the Robbie the Reindeer television specials, the character Des Yeti ( voiced by Dick Enberg is a Yeti

* The Yeti also appeared in Lost Tapes episode " Yeti ," wherein it kills a billionaire explorer on Everest, whose remains, along with the Yeti, are discovered and bought to a government center to be publicly revealed as a new creature, but events ensure it is taken to a research facility instead.

* In Power Rangers Operation Overdrive, the character Norg is a Yeti.

Argost is revealed to be a Yeti in the final season.

* In Regular Show, the character Skips ( voiced by Mark Hamill ) is a Yeti.

In his first autobiography Tenzing said that he believed the Yeti was a large ape, and although he had never seen it himself his father had seen one twice, but in his second autobiography he said he had become much more skeptical about its existence.

He is believed to prowl the Arctic waste, hunting down unwary travelers and slaying them gruesomely, and is said to have inspired the Native American legend of the Wendigo and possibly the Yeti.

Male yetis look like the ' real-life ' Yeti only they have large, beaver tails, have saddles for hats and speak with poor grammar.

On 20 October 2008 a team of seven Japanese adventurers photographed footprints which could allegedly have been made by a Yeti.

Some have also suggested the Yeti could actually be a human hermit.

In 1986, South Tyrolean mountaineer Reinhold Messner claimed to have a face-to-face encounter with a Yeti.

He wrote a book, My Quest for the Yeti, and claims to have killed one.

Rock band Clutch have a track entitled " The Yeti " on their third album The Elephant Riders.

Current technologies have paved the way for more elaborate AA figures, such as the " Ursula head " at Mermaid Lagoon Theater at Tokyo DisneySea, the Indiana Jones figures inside the Indiana Jones attractions at both Disneyland and Tokyo DisneySea, the " swordfighting " pirates inside Pirates of the Caribbean at Disneyland Park ( Paris ), the " lava / rock monster " inside Journey to the Center of the Earth at Tokyo DisneySea, the dinosaurs inside DINOSAUR and the " Yeti " inside Expedition Everest at Disney's Animal Kingdom, or the Roz figure inside Monsters, Inc. Mike & Sulley to the Rescue!

Yeti have a hunting technique of lying still in the snow until their prey is near them, then pouncing.

Although cryptozoologists have suggested the Minnesota Iceman was a Neanderthal, Bigfoot or Yeti, mainstream scientists say that it was most likely a hoax.

The original Yetisports game features no name other than the words " 1978 Reinhold + Yeti ", a reference to Reinhold Messner's claim to have found Yetis.

The Yetis movements are controlled with the left mouse button: you have ten clicks to get the Yeti as far as possible.

Eastern Airways have purchased a Jetstream 41 training simulator from the USA, this is also used by other airlines for their own pilots ' training, such as Yeti Airlines.

Together, Yeti Airlines and Tara Air have the widest domestic flight network of any Nepali airline and fly to most destinations in Nepal.

They too head back to the monastery but the sphere they have allows them to be pinpointed by their enemies and five Yeti are sent to deal with them.

Professor Travers claims to have reactivated a control sphere ( which controls the Yeti ), and now it has gone missing.

After the Yeti have left the platform the Doctor goes to the crates to examine them and is caught by a contained blast as the explosive is set off.

They soon meet up with Knight and Lane, who have come under attack from the Yeti.

The men open fire, but their bullets have no effect on the Yeti, who smash down the main gate as well.

All three agree to return to HQ to support the Doctor, but he and Anne have gone off to track down and seize a Yeti.

Misidentification of Himalayan wildlife has been proposed as an explanation for some Yeti sightings, including the Chu-Teh, a Langur monkey living at lower altitudes, the Tibetan blue bear, the Himalayan brown bear or Dzu-Teh, also known as the Himalayan red bear.

It was traditionally seen as a supernatural being, but Am Fear Liath Mòr has been compared to the Yeti of the Himalaya and the Sasquatch or Bigfoot of North America.

During this time period, the Dungeon had been joined by Loch Ness, the Yeti, Hugh Morrus, Big Bubba Rogers, and One Man Gang.

The Doctor has meanwhile been placed on trial and, as a test of whether he controls the Yeti, is tied to the doors of the monastery as a means to lure the Yeti out.

The freed Yeti takes the sphere to the cave on the mountain, unaware it has been observed by Travers.

* The Yeti has not been in full " A-mode " operation since a few months after the ride's opening.

In that year Shipton and Dr Michael Ward took photographs of the footprints of what may have been the Yeti ( Abominable snowman ), an Ice axe being included in the photographs to show scale.