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====The Abominable Snowman====
The name ''Abominable Snowman'' was coined in 1921, the year Lieutenant-Colonel [[Charles Howard-Bury]] led the [[1921 British Mount Everest reconnaissance expedition]],<ref name=buryP121124 >{{cite journal|author=Howard-Bury, Charles|date=February 1921|title=Some Observations on the Approaches to Mount Everest|journal=The Geographical Journal|volume=57|pages=121–24|doi=10.2307/1781561|issue=2|jstor=1781561|bibcode=1921GeogJ..57..121B|url=https://zenodo.org/record/1449364|access-date=4 July 2019|archive-date=9 March 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210309040312/https://zenodo.org/record/1449364|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |author1=Yourghusband, Francis |author2=Collie, H. Norman |author3=Gatine, A. |name-list-style=amp |date=February 1922 |title=Mount Everest" The reconnaissance: Discussion |journal=The Geographical World Journal |volume=59 |pages=109–12 |doi=10.2307/1781388 |issue=2 |jstor=1781388 |bibcode=1922GeogJ..59..109Y |url=https://zenodo.org/record/1449352 |access-date=4 July 2019 |archive-date=8 March 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210308192610/https://zenodo.org/record/1449352 |url-status=live }}</ref> which he chronicled in ''Mount Everest The Reconnaissance, 1921''.<ref name=howardBury141 >{{cite book |author=Howard-Bury, Charles  |year=1921|title=Mount Everest The Reconnaissance, 1921|publisher=Edward Arnold|chapter=19|page=141|isbn=978-1-135-39935-1}}</ref> In the book, Howard-Bury includes an account of crossing the [[Lhagba La|Lhagpa La]] at {{convert|21000|ft|abbr=on}} where he found footprints that he believed "were probably caused by a large 'loping' grey wolf, which in the soft snow formed double tracks rather like those of a bare-footed man". He adds that his Sherpa guides "at once volunteered that the tracks must be that of 'The Wild Man of the Snows', to which they gave the name 'metoh-kangmi{{'"}}.<ref name=howardBury141 /> "Metoh" translates as "man-bear" and "kang-mi" translates as "snowman".<ref name=pranBobay /><ref name=swanp882884 /><ref name=jacksonMM /><ref>Izzard, Ch. 2, p. 21.</ref>

Confusion exists between Howard-Bury's recitation of the term "metoh-kangmi"<ref name=buryP121124 /><ref name=howardBury141 /> and the term used in [[Bill Tilman]]'s book ''Mount Everest, 1938''<ref name=tilmanP127137>Tilman, pp. 127–37</ref> where Tilman had used the words "metch", which does not exist in the [[Lhasa Tibetan|Tibetan language]],<ref name=izzardP24 >Izzard, Ch. 2, p. 24.</ref> and "kangmi" when relating the coining of the term "Abominable Snowman".<ref name=swanp882884 /><ref name=jacksonMM /><ref name=tilmanP127137 /><ref name=straus-Vol123 >{{cite journal |last=Straus |first=William L. Jr. |journal=Science|volume= 123|title=Abominable Snowman|date=8 June 1956|pages= 1024–25| issue= 3206|doi=10.1126/science.123.3206.1024 |pmid=17800969|bibcode=1956Sci...123.1024S}}</ref> Further evidence of "metch" being a misnomer is provided by Tibetan language authority Professor [[David Snellgrove]] from the [[SOAS University of London|School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London]] (ca. 1956), who dismissed the word "metch" as impossible, because the consonants "t-c-h" cannot be conjoined in the Tibetan language.<ref name=izzardP24 /> Documentation suggests that the term "metch-kangmi" is derived from one source (from the year 1921).<ref name="tilmanP127137"/> It has been suggested that "metch" is simply a misspelling of "metoh".

The use of "Abominable Snowman" began when Henry Newman, a longtime contributor to ''[[The Statesman (India)|The Statesman]]'' in [[Kolkata|Calcutta]], writing under the pen name "Kim",<ref name=IzzardP2122 /> interviewed the porters of the "Everest Reconnaissance expedition" on their return to Darjeeling.<ref name=tilmanP127137 /><ref>{{cite journal |author= Kirtley, Bacil F. | title=Unknown Hominids and New World legends | pages=77–90 |journal=Western Folklore | volume=23|date=April 1964| doi=10.2307/1498256 | issue= 1304 |jstor= 1498256}}</ref><ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Masters |first=John |date=January 1959 |title=The Abominable Snowman |url=https://harpers.org/archive/1959/01/the-abominable-snowman/ |url-access=subscription |magazine=[[Harper's Magazine]] |volume=CCXVIII |issue=1304 |page=31 |access-date=17 July 2022 |archive-date=9 August 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220809125355/https://harpers.org/archive/1959/01/the-abominable-snowman/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Newman mistranslated the word "metoh" as "filthy", substituting the term "abominable", perhaps out of artistic licence.<ref>Izzard, Ch. 2, p. 23.</ref> As author Bill Tilman recounts, "[Newman] wrote long after in a letter to ''The Times'': The whole story seemed such a joyous creation I sent it to one or two newspapers".<ref name=tilmanP127137 />