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Yeti Project Japan explorers claim proof of hairy Himalayan man-beast Image: Alleged Yeti footprint The Yeti Project Japan / AP Hikers find 'abominable snowman' footprints Police seek motive in TV anchorwoman attack Kerkorian pulling out of Ford, taking huge loss Candidates talk economy in Pa., Fla. Hulk Hogan's son freed after 5 months in jail Most viewed on msnbc.com Woman convicted in malnourished girl's death Waitress, 88, helps N.Y. eatery draw customers Four Tops frontman Levi Stubbs dead at 72 Palin loses bid to block beluga whale protection Iraqi puppy adopted by soldier en route to U.S. Most viewed on msnbc.com Hikers find 'abominable snowman' footprints Dead goldfish gets voter registration material Study: Gap growing between rich and poor Middle-aged women drive rise in U.S. suicides Two major firms tapped to run financial rescue Most viewed on msnbc.com By Gopal Sharma updated 9:54 a.m. ET, Tues., Oct. 21, 2008 KATHMANDU - Japanese climbers returning from a mountain in western Nepal said on Tuesday they had found footprints they think belonged to the abominable snowman or Yeti. "We saw three footprints which looked like that of human beings," Kuniaki Yagihara, a member of the Yeti Project Japan, said in Kathmandu, after returning from the mountain with photographs of the footprints. The climbers, equipped with long-lens cameras, video cameras and telescopes, said, however that they did not see or take any photographs of the creature. Story continues below ↓advertisement The Yeti is said to live in the Himalayan regions of Nepal and is largely regarded by the scientific community as a mythical creature. Yagihara, 61, said the creature's footprints were found on snow at an altitude of about 4,800 meters (15,748 feet) in the Dhaulagiri mountain range in western Nepal. "We know how the footprints of bear, deer and mountain goat look like and it was none of that," he said. "We believe it is that of Yeti." WEIRD SCIENCE Weird science: Top unexplained mysteries From Bigfoot to déjà vu, some strange phenomena remain to be explained. Yagihara and his team, supported by Sherpas, spent six weeks on the lower reaches of the 7,661-meter (25,134-ft) Dhaulagiri IV looking for evidence of the beast's existence. Sherpas narrate tales of a wild hairy creature roaming the Himalayas, capturing the imagination of foreign climbers of Mount Everest since the 1920s. Those stories prompted many, including Sir Edmund Hillary, to carry out yeti hunts. In August, two men in the United States claimed they had found the remains of a half-man, half-ape Bigfoot, which actually turned out to be a rubber gorilla suit. Some other climbers have also claimed to have found Yeti footprints, but no one has yet actually seen it or produced irrefutable proof. Yagihara, the manager of a mountain museum in Japan, said he believes the creature exists. "If I don't believe on Yeti I would never come."