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It's not a joke. Jean-Louis Maurette, a Breton Adventurer, is preparing a new expedition to Russia. His hope: to be the first to discover the almasty, the yeti of the caucasus.
When Jean-Louis Maurette, 58, says he's looking for Bigfoot, he's having trouble being taken seriously. " people, it's fun for them, it's like aliens, it doesn't exist ", ",. But for this baroudeur writer of quimperlé (Finistère), a thousand leagues from the illuminated, it is an exciting and very thoughtful quest. He returned from a month-long expedition to Kazakhstan, after three more in Russia in recent years. He's hunting the almasty, or Sasquatch of the caucasus, which would look like a big, furry hairy primate. But, like his cousins from the Himalayas (the yeti of tintin) or North American forests (big football), he often remains a big joke in the eyes of the public. Yet, for decades, expeditions have been linked.
Explorers and seasoned scientists are trying to find a trace, producing solid work, some of which have been supported by Paléontologue Yves Coppens. Many have, in these remote mountains, collected testimonies of people who overlap. The lucky ones found fingerprints. But none of them brought back an indisputable reality: a dead or alive yeti. Result: this monkey of about 2 M, who moves like a man, is returned to the state of myth, feeding on la fantasy and videos.
Jean-Louis, he believes. " at first I was very skeptical, I had doubts. But the more I go to the field, the tighter it gets. What I'm passionate about is that there's a mystery ", ", that's the one who's also a hunter of wrecks. He's been interested in this puzzle for almost half a century.
On his travels to the east, he conducted the investigation. He questioned shepherds, hunters who saw "strange things", a natural reserve inspector, from the residents to ensure that their parents had told them to cross the beast...
On the spot, people are not always talkative. " witnesses are afraid we're gonna take them for fools. But when they talk, it's believable. They know the fauna, they're not going to confuse the almasty with a bear ", thinks this former technician of laser tank sights. He himself observed a suspicious trace of not. But he did not come to his nose with the hominidé to " Dark hair with red sheen ". " it is an animal that is probably in the process of disappearing, which has a nocturnal life in regions that is. So, inevitably, encounters with man are difficult ", he analyzes. He is not afraid of this hypothetical face-to-face with an animal at the top of the chain of intelligence and evolution. What scares me is the bears, not the yeti ", he does.
He is already preparing his next summer hunt on the caucasus ridges, in Russia, currently on the lookout for sponsors to fund his three-month immersion. This time he would like to be able to "Mount a study station", set about photo-video traps and equip himself with a thermal vision camera to try and flush out the mysterious creature.
The Yeti, " the abominable snowman " of the Himalayas, popularisé by the adventures of " Tintin in tibet ", published in 1960, is not a pure invention of hergé. The Famous Belgian Cartoonist was inspired by his compatriot and friend, the scientist Bernard Heuvelmans. The two men met as early as 1942 in the premises of the daily "evening". the zoologue, who died in 2001, is one of the founding fathers of the cryptozoologie, the study of animals whose existence does not have Été proven by science.
This is based on testimonies, fossils, hair, clichés... the doctor in zoology wrote the series of books "on the trail of ignored beasts", which sold to hundreds of thousands of Copies. This scholar provided hergé with documentation on the yeti for his 20th album. In L''s imagination, the monster of the peaks, which has been the subject of many expeditions in the th century, is not a cruel brute. He's even endowed with feelings, since he shows himself very human when he becomes the guardian angel of Chiang, who survived an air crash.
Source: Leparisien
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