2. 2014

Alps in April

I'm convinced the European yeti (Gigantopithecus modernii) is out there somewhere, and I'm determined to find it. After all, such little known creatures deserve the attention of modern veterinary medicine as much as any other species. And besides, it's been starting to get hot in St Kitts. And so during the April break I headed for the Alps once more...
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    Finally it was time to go again, so we headed off down the glacier. Here we're at 2,500 m. In total we descended about 2,500 m as well.
    We crossed numerous crevasses, and debated their depths - somewhere between 30 and 90 m was the consensus. I kept a keen eye out for signs of yeti activity...
    These ice lakes on the glacier near the crevasses provided a perfect water source for the yeti - and possibly a bathing area as well. But still, it seemed I would have to enter the crevasses to encounter the yeti, and my courage was not at its best this day...