Www.scss.tcd.ie/publications/tech-reports/reports.01/TCD-CS-2001-04.pdf. Landscapes: Volume Two. Siberia home to yeti, bigfoot enthusiasts insist. The Abominable Snowman, a 50s horror film, would probably be dismissed by modern yeti enthusiasts as bunkum.
Photograph: Cine Text/Allstar/Sportsphoto Ltd The vast Siberian tundra holds untold mysteries, from once-secret nuclear installations to alleged UFO crash sites. Now, a team of scientists say they are "95%" sure that Russia's wintry expanse is home to the mythical yeti, otherwise known as the abominable snowman. More than a dozen scientists and yeti enthusiasts flew in from Canada, Estonia, Sweden and the US to exchange findings with their Russian counterparts at a day-long conference in the town of Tashtagol, some 2,000 miles east of Moscow in the Kemerovo region. Locals there have reported an increase in sightings of a creature in recent years.