The Shipton Everest Expedition
The Legend:
In 1936, the first Shipton expedition to Mount Everest is said to have found strange footprints in the snow around the fringes of the snowline on the slopes approaching Everest. A member of the expedition, H.W. Tilman, followed the tracks for several miles, finally loseing them on a long stretch of rock. He noted that the trail was more like what a biped would make; it had no resemblance to tracks made by quadrupeds.
Corrections
My only source for this story is the factually questionable book by Frank Edwards, Stranger than Science. To tell the truth, H.W. Tilman only participated in the 1938 Shipton expedition to Everest, Shipton's fourth visit to the mountain (the 1936 expedition was his third).
The party for this expedition consisted of H.W. Tilman as leader, with Noel Odell, Charles Warren, Peter Lloyd, Peter Oliver, Frank Smythe, Karma Paul, Angtharkay, Kusang, Pasang Bhotia, Tensing Norgay, and others. It took place in April/June of 1938, and Eric Shipton makes no note of any unusual happenings in his The Six Mountain-Travels Book, though, to be fair, Shipton is writing second-hand as he did not participate in this expedition.
I'll keep digging.
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