WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.440 --> 00:00:05.080 Tired of the every day grind, ever dream of a 2 00:00:05.160 --> 00:00:11.279 life of romantic adventure, want to get away from it all. 3 00:00:12.919 --> 00:00:13.759 We offer you. 4 00:00:15.759 --> 00:00:23.600 Escape Escape Design to free you from the four walls 5 00:00:23.600 --> 00:00:26.480 of to day for a half hour of high adventure. 6 00:00:40.399 --> 00:00:43.479 You are high on the frozen slopes of the Great Mountain, 7 00:00:44.399 --> 00:00:48.079 terrified and caught in a blizzard, while the thing for 8 00:00:48.159 --> 00:00:53.079 which you've been hunting has suddenly become the hunter. And 9 00:00:53.159 --> 00:00:58.240 if it finds you, then for you and your companions 10 00:00:58.759 --> 00:01:00.960 there can be no escape. 11 00:01:01.719 --> 00:01:05.239 So listen now as Escape brings you Anthony Ellis's exciting 12 00:01:05.280 --> 00:01:07.359 story The Abominable Snowman. 13 00:01:31.640 --> 00:01:33.680 Our first bit of luck was when we hired our 14 00:01:33.760 --> 00:01:37.079 shepherd guide, Nassang, that was in Darjeeling. 15 00:01:37.799 --> 00:01:39.120 When I told Nasang. 16 00:01:38.879 --> 00:01:42.120 What we were after, he hesitated for a moment, and 17 00:01:42.120 --> 00:01:43.159 then he said. 18 00:01:43.319 --> 00:01:46.040 These shybes have not come to climb shomolongma. 19 00:01:46.400 --> 00:01:48.599 Oh no, we're a little late for that. It's already 20 00:01:48.640 --> 00:01:51.359 been done. The other two sibs and myself are here 21 00:01:51.359 --> 00:01:52.519 for the reason I told. 22 00:01:52.359 --> 00:01:57.640 You met too, kungmy that's right. These ships always hired 23 00:01:57.680 --> 00:02:00.680 me to climb the mountain with them. By never this, 24 00:02:01.359 --> 00:02:04.959 are you afraid of them? I have seen one. 25 00:02:05.200 --> 00:02:06.040 You've seen one? 26 00:02:06.359 --> 00:02:08.280 Yes, many of us have seen them. 27 00:02:09.520 --> 00:02:16.240 Wait a minute, Alan, Yeah, what's up? 28 00:02:16.759 --> 00:02:18.840 I meant of viewing as sherpa. And he says he's 29 00:02:18.879 --> 00:02:22.120 seen one of the things. He was rank. We'll have 30 00:02:22.240 --> 00:02:24.319 to give some tobacco, all right, Come on in. I 31 00:02:24.360 --> 00:02:24.879 think this is a. 32 00:02:25.000 --> 00:02:32.319 Man, all right, Nasang. This is mister Ferris sab Helon Nasan. 33 00:02:33.120 --> 00:02:36.240 Nasan was telling me about what he'd seen. Go ahead, Nasan. 34 00:02:36.879 --> 00:02:40.080 It has a face that is evil. And when it 35 00:02:40.159 --> 00:02:43.680 saw me, it uttered a strange cry and bounded away, 36 00:02:44.439 --> 00:02:49.560 sometimes leaping, sometimes running with great strides. It was dusk, 37 00:02:50.280 --> 00:02:52.360 and after a moment I lost sight of it in 38 00:02:52.400 --> 00:02:57.000 this snow. Where were you with the French expedition? It 39 00:02:57.319 --> 00:03:01.400 was at nineteen thousand feet And show my luma halfar 40 00:03:01.439 --> 00:03:05.800 away from it, thirty feet perhaps thirty five. 41 00:03:06.080 --> 00:03:07.360 You're sure it wasn't an eight? 42 00:03:07.719 --> 00:03:10.759 I am sure. There is no ape in Imarria to 43 00:03:10.919 --> 00:03:14.280 make such a track for about bears. These two I 44 00:03:14.319 --> 00:03:18.360 have been asked. But does a bear walk always upon 45 00:03:18.400 --> 00:03:19.759 its hind legs? 46 00:03:20.960 --> 00:03:26.360 Well that's enough for me, Alan, Yeah, he'll do. But 47 00:03:26.439 --> 00:03:28.319 if you want the job in the song, you're hired. 48 00:03:30.479 --> 00:03:35.240 You are going to try to capture a YETI. Yes, 49 00:03:35.919 --> 00:03:39.639 it will be a difficult thing, but I will serve 50 00:03:39.680 --> 00:03:40.000 with you. 51 00:03:51.400 --> 00:03:57.319 Yetty wild man net or Kung me abominable snowman. That's 52 00:03:57.360 --> 00:03:59.879 the name the natives had for the things, and all 53 00:04:00.000 --> 00:04:02.080 on Ferris, Frank Davis and I were going to try 54 00:04:02.080 --> 00:04:05.599 to get one. We'd all done some climbing, but climbing 55 00:04:05.719 --> 00:04:09.639 was secondary here. Expeditions since the beginning of the twentieth 56 00:04:09.639 --> 00:04:13.280 century had heard of the abominable snowmen, observed their tracks, 57 00:04:13.919 --> 00:04:16.680 and one or two white men claim to have seen them. 58 00:04:17.199 --> 00:04:24.199 Great ape, bear, monkey wild men. We didn't know, but 59 00:04:24.319 --> 00:04:31.839 we were going to find out. Four weeks later, we 60 00:04:31.839 --> 00:04:34.040 were in the Wrong Book Valley for our interview at 61 00:04:34.079 --> 00:04:37.240 the monastery with a lama. The journey from our base 62 00:04:37.279 --> 00:04:39.800 had been uneventful. The weather was good and our spirits 63 00:04:39.800 --> 00:04:42.800 were high. From the lama's window, we could see the 64 00:04:42.879 --> 00:04:45.199 great peak of Everest in the distance. 65 00:04:48.199 --> 00:04:51.639 Why gentlemen, do you desire to capture Meto Kung. 66 00:04:52.160 --> 00:04:54.399 Because we believe it will be an invaluable aid in 67 00:04:54.439 --> 00:04:57.360 our prehistoric research. That is, if these things are in 68 00:04:57.439 --> 00:04:59.199 any way human, and. 69 00:04:59.160 --> 00:05:02.920 For this reason, then you have formed the expedition yes, 70 00:05:04.319 --> 00:05:06.800 you are all familiar with climbing. 71 00:05:07.160 --> 00:05:07.759 Yes, we are. 72 00:05:08.439 --> 00:05:10.519 You would need to be the. 73 00:05:10.560 --> 00:05:15.360 Yetty move at high places, dangerous places, so my people 74 00:05:15.439 --> 00:05:19.959 tell me. Also, the monsoons are arriving in a short time. 75 00:05:20.240 --> 00:05:21.160 I understand that. 76 00:05:22.120 --> 00:05:24.160 Then, do we have your permission to investigate in the 77 00:05:24.240 --> 00:05:25.439 valley and beyond? 78 00:05:25.920 --> 00:05:28.079 You have my permission. I appreciate it. 79 00:05:28.079 --> 00:05:31.879 There is one point, however, I must request that no 80 00:05:32.199 --> 00:05:35.759 wild animal or being in this very be shocked. 81 00:05:36.639 --> 00:05:38.680 Our religion does not allow it. 82 00:05:39.079 --> 00:05:42.240 Well respect your wishes, sir. Now may I ask you 83 00:05:42.279 --> 00:05:46.680 one more thing? Of course, my son, do you believe 84 00:05:46.720 --> 00:05:48.319 in the existence of metal Kangni? 85 00:05:50.319 --> 00:05:53.839 I myself have never seen them, but I know that 86 00:05:53.920 --> 00:05:57.839 they live here above the valley on the Goddess Mother 87 00:05:58.000 --> 00:06:01.360 of the world. It is all so true that at 88 00:06:01.480 --> 00:06:06.160 least five and possibly more inhabit the upper Wrong Book 89 00:06:06.360 --> 00:06:07.920 and its glacials. 90 00:06:08.680 --> 00:06:11.519 Thank you, Do you have portons? 91 00:06:11.759 --> 00:06:13.839 Our guide? Nassang is hiring them now. 92 00:06:15.399 --> 00:06:18.120 I trust that he meets with good fortune. 93 00:06:25.079 --> 00:06:28.480 The old man with great dignity about slightly to us, 94 00:06:28.480 --> 00:06:29.439 and we were dismissed. 95 00:06:30.360 --> 00:06:32.120 But I thought I saw the shadow. 96 00:06:31.879 --> 00:06:33.879 Of a smile on his lips as he turned away, 97 00:06:35.199 --> 00:06:38.560 and It wasn't long before I found out why. Nasang 98 00:06:38.600 --> 00:06:41.000 returned to us in our quarters, and his face warned 99 00:06:41.000 --> 00:06:41.839 of bad news. 100 00:06:42.000 --> 00:06:45.120 Sir, I am unable to hire any porters. 101 00:06:45.439 --> 00:06:45.800 Why not? 102 00:06:46.279 --> 00:06:50.040 They know the purpose of the expedition. They will not go. 103 00:06:50.519 --> 00:06:54.399 Why they are afraid the snowmen. 104 00:06:54.759 --> 00:06:58.680 Yes, they live in peace with them. They wish no trouble. 105 00:06:59.279 --> 00:06:59.959 They are afraid. 106 00:07:01.480 --> 00:07:04.480 Well, all right, it'll be rough, but we can't waste 107 00:07:04.480 --> 00:07:06.600 time talking them into it. The monsoons will be coming 108 00:07:06.600 --> 00:07:08.879 in a couple of weeks. It's not the same as 109 00:07:08.920 --> 00:07:11.639 climbing Everest. We will travel light. Just the four of us, 110 00:07:11.680 --> 00:07:15.839 set up a base and start hunting, all right with you, fellows? Yeah, sure, Nasan, 111 00:07:16.680 --> 00:07:17.240 I will. 112 00:07:17.079 --> 00:07:19.160 Go with you. I am not afraid. 113 00:07:19.360 --> 00:07:21.519 God. Well, let's take a look at the man. 114 00:07:24.639 --> 00:07:24.759 Now. 115 00:07:24.759 --> 00:07:28.240 Will each carry a capacity load. We should be able 116 00:07:28.279 --> 00:07:31.519 to make this point below the glacier in two days. 117 00:07:32.240 --> 00:07:36.920 That's sixteen thousand feet And if ore abominable snowmen are 118 00:07:36.920 --> 00:07:39.639 in the vicinity, we've got two weeks to find them 119 00:07:40.160 --> 00:07:41.519 when we start tomorrow. 120 00:07:41.839 --> 00:07:46.879 Good. Well, that's it, Paul, Yes. 121 00:07:46.759 --> 00:07:49.240 Rak one thing? Or what do the natives mean when 122 00:07:49.240 --> 00:07:50.680 they say they don't want any trouble with the. 123 00:07:50.720 --> 00:07:54.800 Things superstition probably, Oh no, sad, it is not superstition. 124 00:07:55.639 --> 00:07:59.079 It is because the YETI are cannibals. That is why 125 00:07:59.160 --> 00:07:59.839 reporters are a. 126 00:08:15.639 --> 00:08:17.959 The weather turned ugly that day we left the village. 127 00:08:18.439 --> 00:08:20.920 A cold Tibetan wind blew down from the west, and 128 00:08:20.959 --> 00:08:23.000 with our heavy packs it took us much longer than 129 00:08:23.000 --> 00:08:24.920 we'd thought to arrive at the point just below the 130 00:08:24.959 --> 00:08:27.639 Wrong Boo Glacier. We set up a camp and made 131 00:08:27.680 --> 00:08:29.879 ourselves as comfortable as we could. 132 00:08:30.920 --> 00:08:32.320 The next morning wasn't so bad. 133 00:08:32.799 --> 00:08:36.159 There was a heavy overcast, a promise of snow, and 134 00:08:36.240 --> 00:08:39.200 the peak of Everest looming over us was shrouded in clouds. 135 00:08:40.039 --> 00:08:41.679 The four of us sat in the tent, looking at 136 00:08:41.679 --> 00:08:43.279 our charts and drinking hot tea. 137 00:08:45.000 --> 00:08:47.159 I figured it'd be easiest if we started at the 138 00:08:47.200 --> 00:08:49.519 east glacier. It's only about three miles from here, and 139 00:08:49.519 --> 00:08:51.159 where the weather is sinking as it is, we won't 140 00:08:51.200 --> 00:08:52.120 run too much of a risk. 141 00:08:52.679 --> 00:08:54.399 What do you think, bo Well, that sounds all right. 142 00:08:55.200 --> 00:09:01.639 What do you say we split up, you and the 143 00:09:01.799 --> 00:09:03.240 song Alan and me. 144 00:09:04.159 --> 00:09:06.720 We'll work up on either side of the ridge here 145 00:09:07.480 --> 00:09:10.080 and if we spot any tracks, fire two shots. Yeah, 146 00:09:10.720 --> 00:09:13.639 now the big thing though, No matter what, don't shoot 147 00:09:13.679 --> 00:09:16.480 at the thing if you do see it. Okay, okay, 148 00:09:16.960 --> 00:09:19.840 all right. If we lose touch with each other, we'll 149 00:09:20.000 --> 00:09:20.960 meet back here at five. 150 00:09:23.000 --> 00:09:24.039 All right, let's get going. 151 00:09:36.799 --> 00:09:39.039 We'd left the base at six that morning, and the 152 00:09:39.080 --> 00:09:42.320 going was rough. Alan was pretty well shot by the 153 00:09:42.360 --> 00:09:45.440 time we got to the seventeen thousand foot mark. He 154 00:09:45.559 --> 00:09:48.279 was having a tough time breathing, and the wind had 155 00:09:48.279 --> 00:09:51.639 come up again, and with it a fine, powdery snow 156 00:09:51.720 --> 00:09:56.720 that blinded choked us. 157 00:09:59.000 --> 00:10:04.320 Hey, I gotta take fine all right, Yeah, I'm over 158 00:10:04.320 --> 00:10:06.039 over here. It might cut some of the wind. 159 00:10:08.240 --> 00:10:15.600 Oh oh, oh, that's better. We might as well start 160 00:10:15.639 --> 00:10:18.000 back for the base. We couldn't see anything in this anyhow. 161 00:10:18.200 --> 00:10:22.480 You know, right now, I don't care whether we're doing. 162 00:10:22.919 --> 00:10:26.000 This is good weather, waiting until the monsoon start? 163 00:10:26.200 --> 00:10:27.320 No, no, not me. 164 00:10:28.720 --> 00:10:33.480 Oh cool, I never been so cool in all my life. 165 00:10:47.480 --> 00:10:49.919 We stayed in the half shelter of an overhang for 166 00:10:49.960 --> 00:10:52.679 ten minutes, and the wind was quieter and the snow 167 00:10:52.679 --> 00:10:55.679 at letter. I noticed that the tracks we'd made coming 168 00:10:55.720 --> 00:10:58.320 into the shelter were gone now, but we didn't have 169 00:10:58.360 --> 00:11:01.320 any worry finding our way back. I figured that Frank 170 00:11:01.360 --> 00:11:03.480 and Nassang had met pretty much the same thing on 171 00:11:03.519 --> 00:11:04.120 their side. 172 00:11:03.919 --> 00:11:05.519 Of the ridge, and we'd meet them at the base. 173 00:11:06.559 --> 00:11:13.720 So Alan and I picked ourselves up and started off. Boy, 174 00:11:13.879 --> 00:11:17.720 I thought I was in pretty good shape. But up here, boy, 175 00:11:17.759 --> 00:11:21.240 I'm not, Paul, I'm tired again. 176 00:11:21.519 --> 00:11:25.679 We'll just take it easy going down. You haven't got frostfined, 177 00:11:25.679 --> 00:11:26.240 have you? 178 00:11:26.279 --> 00:11:32.240 No? No, not yet? But what the left there? 179 00:11:36.679 --> 00:11:39.960 Yeah? 180 00:11:38.519 --> 00:11:42.960 They're not our tracks, not unless you took your boots 181 00:11:42.960 --> 00:11:48.440 off on the way up. Must have just passed by, 182 00:11:49.159 --> 00:11:56.440 must have seen us. Yeah, come on, we were looking 183 00:11:56.440 --> 00:12:00.320 at a set of tracks newly made in the fresh snow, and. 184 00:12:00.320 --> 00:12:02.399 They'd passed so close to us shutter that. 185 00:12:02.360 --> 00:12:05.919 The thing must have known we were there. They weren't 186 00:12:06.000 --> 00:12:09.320 the tracts of a bear or an ape, but more 187 00:12:09.399 --> 00:12:13.519 like a splay footed, naked foot, the tracks of the 188 00:12:13.559 --> 00:12:14.879 abominable snowmen. 189 00:12:25.759 --> 00:12:28.000 We will return to escape in just a moment, But 190 00:12:28.080 --> 00:12:31.399 first thirty million school children make their way back to 191 00:12:31.440 --> 00:12:34.279 class this year. There are just ten million too many 192 00:12:34.320 --> 00:12:39.759 for existing school facilities. Contact Better Schools to West forty 193 00:12:39.759 --> 00:12:44.080 fifth Street, New York, nineteen for information on ending this menace. 194 00:12:44.080 --> 00:12:57.960 To America's educational standards, and now back to escape. 195 00:13:11.320 --> 00:13:14.279 We began to follow the tracks, and for a while, 196 00:13:14.360 --> 00:13:17.159 perhaps one hundred and fifty yards, it was easy. And 197 00:13:17.200 --> 00:13:20.039 then the thing made a leftwood traverse down a deep slope. 198 00:13:20.639 --> 00:13:23.519 We could see the Prince clearly angling with a side step, 199 00:13:24.039 --> 00:13:27.759 as share footed as a mountain goat, except that it 200 00:13:27.879 --> 00:13:29.480 was walking on two lakes. 201 00:13:30.559 --> 00:13:36.519 His way. Take it easy, any staper, Why I think 202 00:13:36.600 --> 00:13:37.519 you can't climb? 203 00:13:38.200 --> 00:13:40.840 Hold up all I think? 204 00:13:43.679 --> 00:13:45.279 And he dropped out of sight over the lip of 205 00:13:45.320 --> 00:13:49.120 the crevasse. We went roped together. I got as close 206 00:13:49.159 --> 00:13:51.799 as I dared to the edge. The loose snow crumbled 207 00:13:51.840 --> 00:13:55.440 away from my outstretched body, and I looked down into 208 00:13:55.440 --> 00:13:58.320 the blue black darkness below, falling away into nothingness. 209 00:13:59.440 --> 00:14:01.159 He was gone, finished. 210 00:14:02.440 --> 00:14:04.240 All I could think of was the noise he'd made 211 00:14:04.279 --> 00:14:10.720 when he went over. Surprise, angry, then silence. The crevass 212 00:14:10.799 --> 00:14:15.759 might have been five hundred feet or five thousand. Snow 213 00:14:15.840 --> 00:14:19.240 started to fall again, big flakes this time, and wet. 214 00:14:20.559 --> 00:14:23.639 I stood up and across the gap twenty feet away, 215 00:14:23.679 --> 00:14:26.919 I saw the tracks of the thing continuing on and 216 00:14:26.960 --> 00:14:29.519 away until they became lost in the blank whiteness of 217 00:14:29.519 --> 00:14:33.000 the glacier. It had jumped and landed still upright on 218 00:14:33.000 --> 00:14:38.720 the opposite side. I went back to the base, and 219 00:14:38.799 --> 00:14:43.320 an hour later Frank and the song returned. I told them, 220 00:14:43.399 --> 00:14:45.080 and we were quiet for a long time. 221 00:14:46.799 --> 00:14:50.759 Then all are we going on again tomorrow? 222 00:14:51.639 --> 00:14:52.000 Why not? 223 00:14:52.919 --> 00:14:53.639 I just wanted to. 224 00:14:53.840 --> 00:14:56.000 We should go back. It is an omen. 225 00:14:56.200 --> 00:14:58.120 I tell you, he was going too fast. He didn't 226 00:14:58.120 --> 00:14:59.799 have a chance to see the cravass. That's not an 227 00:14:59.799 --> 00:15:01.399 an When it's bad sense. 228 00:15:01.279 --> 00:15:02.799 Made to Kung. We cannot be gone. 229 00:15:02.879 --> 00:15:03.600 We'll catch him. 230 00:15:03.759 --> 00:15:05.279 But there are only three of us. If we had 231 00:15:05.279 --> 00:15:06.120 a few more men. 232 00:15:06.039 --> 00:15:07.840 I tell you, the thing was so close that if 233 00:15:07.840 --> 00:15:09.399 we'd looked up at the right time, we'd have seen it. 234 00:15:09.559 --> 00:15:11.039 You think I'm going to give up now? Next time 235 00:15:11.039 --> 00:15:11.600 we'll get it. 236 00:15:13.240 --> 00:15:16.519 There was no chance to get allan out. No, you 237 00:15:16.559 --> 00:15:17.320 think if we went back. 238 00:15:17.440 --> 00:15:19.759 Listen, you think I don't want to. He's gone. I tried, 239 00:15:19.799 --> 00:15:20.399 but he's gone. 240 00:15:20.399 --> 00:15:24.480 Okay, Okay, I wish that winded letter. 241 00:15:26.320 --> 00:15:44.879 Maybe by morning we'll try again tomorrow. It was cold 242 00:15:44.919 --> 00:15:49.840 that night, and somehow colder because Alan was gone. I 243 00:15:49.879 --> 00:15:52.200 heard Frank tossing around, and I knew he was thinking 244 00:15:52.240 --> 00:15:56.279 about a body broken and lonely, lost somewhere in a 245 00:15:56.440 --> 00:15:58.039 deep and dark place. 246 00:16:00.000 --> 00:16:00.200 Owning. 247 00:16:00.279 --> 00:16:02.720 The three of us packed our gear, camera, food, and 248 00:16:02.799 --> 00:16:05.320 there was a light pack and we started up again, 249 00:16:06.399 --> 00:16:10.519 this time to a crest above the ridge. It was 250 00:16:10.759 --> 00:16:13.200 tougher than it looked, and we weren't even halfway up 251 00:16:13.240 --> 00:16:13.840 before we. 252 00:16:14.240 --> 00:16:15.320 Had to rest. 253 00:16:16.000 --> 00:16:17.720 But as a look to the west, I saw clouds 254 00:16:17.720 --> 00:16:23.200 boiling up, not white but somber threatening, and below the 255 00:16:23.320 --> 00:16:30.919 valley looked grim, ugly gray, And then the sun was gone. 256 00:16:30.519 --> 00:16:33.679 And we kept on going up. And then I had 257 00:16:33.679 --> 00:16:34.480 a strange feeling. 258 00:16:34.960 --> 00:16:36.840 It was nothing I could see, nothing I could hear, 259 00:16:36.879 --> 00:16:44.399 only a sensation of being watched. Followed, Wait a minute, 260 00:16:45.200 --> 00:16:45.840 see something? 261 00:16:46.080 --> 00:16:51.960 No, I have filled it too, sade, something following us. 262 00:16:52.159 --> 00:16:55.399 Yes, it is me to cung me. How do you 263 00:16:55.480 --> 00:16:57.399 know it can be nothing else? 264 00:16:58.240 --> 00:17:04.160 At the site? There nothing here, said, Maybe it's curious. Now, 265 00:17:04.200 --> 00:17:08.359 don't turn around, Frank, listen. When we got up to 266 00:17:08.400 --> 00:17:11.480 the crest, you two flop down, Stay in sight of. 267 00:17:11.440 --> 00:17:13.680 The slope here, what are you gonna do? 268 00:17:14.160 --> 00:17:16.160 Move around the hump and watch. If it thinks we're 269 00:17:16.160 --> 00:17:18.000 all together, it may come close enough to give us. 270 00:17:17.920 --> 00:17:21.160 A chance to get it. You better watch a step. 271 00:17:22.160 --> 00:17:24.839 It looks nasty. I will now come on. 272 00:17:29.000 --> 00:17:31.039 It took us another fifteen minutes to get up to 273 00:17:31.039 --> 00:17:33.680 the crest, and then Frank and Nassang hunched down to rest. 274 00:17:34.559 --> 00:17:36.920 They were in clear view of the slope we just descended. 275 00:17:38.039 --> 00:17:39.960 I moved back out of sight and made my way 276 00:17:40.000 --> 00:17:42.559 toward the hump, which backed a long shelf on the north. 277 00:17:42.400 --> 00:17:43.119 Side of the crest. 278 00:17:43.920 --> 00:17:45.920 In a couple of minutes, I lost sight of them 279 00:17:46.119 --> 00:17:49.119 and of the slope. The wind had increased and the 280 00:17:49.119 --> 00:17:51.799 clouds had spread. Now who become an iron gray canopy 281 00:17:51.839 --> 00:17:56.640 over the mountain. It was getting colder again. I don't 282 00:17:56.640 --> 00:17:58.880 think it took over five minutes to reach my lookout point, 283 00:17:59.720 --> 00:18:00.319 and I did. 284 00:18:00.319 --> 00:18:02.400 I had a perfect view of the ground we'd covered. 285 00:18:04.440 --> 00:18:08.079 There was nothing there. The men were out of sight, 286 00:18:09.519 --> 00:18:09.880 and I. 287 00:18:09.839 --> 00:18:25.359 Waited a minute. Two there was nothing, and two it 288 00:18:25.440 --> 00:18:28.359 came carried on the wind to cry, and then shots, 289 00:18:28.920 --> 00:18:31.559 and I scrambled back to where I'd left them, and. 290 00:18:31.519 --> 00:18:32.279 When I got there. 291 00:18:33.400 --> 00:18:37.720 When I got there, Frank was lying on his back 292 00:18:38.720 --> 00:18:40.720 and I couldn't look at what was left of his face. 293 00:18:41.279 --> 00:18:44.599 There were terrible, deep rents in his clothing, and he 294 00:18:44.759 --> 00:18:48.519 was dead. The song lay huddled a few feet beyond 295 00:18:48.960 --> 00:18:50.119 a gun in his hand. 296 00:18:50.599 --> 00:18:53.359 So what is it? 297 00:18:54.000 --> 00:19:01.759 But metter cun me kip from behind us. Be thought 298 00:19:01.799 --> 00:19:05.680 I could it gone it. 299 00:19:07.319 --> 00:19:09.720 Killed it? 300 00:19:10.599 --> 00:19:17.640 Sprang it to me it is strong, shy, heugh the strain. 301 00:19:17.440 --> 00:19:21.160 Of ten men. All right, I reckon you sit up 302 00:19:22.240 --> 00:19:23.240 my leg. 303 00:19:24.000 --> 00:19:27.839 It is strock to me. My leg broken. 304 00:19:29.119 --> 00:19:34.759 I shut at it, but I missed it jumped away 305 00:19:34.839 --> 00:19:35.680 and who's gone. 306 00:19:35.759 --> 00:19:38.720 Okay, we'll have to figure out a way to get 307 00:19:38.759 --> 00:19:43.559 you down. We were four hours from camp, and with 308 00:19:43.720 --> 00:19:45.559 the song practically helpless, it could. 309 00:19:45.400 --> 00:19:48.079 Well be four days or never. 310 00:19:49.119 --> 00:19:51.359 I buried Frank where he was lying, then began to 311 00:19:51.400 --> 00:19:54.799 work down the slope. The song was in great pain. 312 00:19:54.880 --> 00:19:58.079 He half slid and crawled as best he could. That 313 00:19:58.160 --> 00:19:59.880 part of it wasn't too bad. Then we were at 314 00:19:59.880 --> 00:20:02.359 the bottom and there was a ledge to climb. It 315 00:20:02.440 --> 00:20:05.000 took well over two hours to do that, and we 316 00:20:05.119 --> 00:20:07.519 still had three miles of difficult to rain to cover. 317 00:20:08.599 --> 00:20:10.279 The stops became more freezer. 318 00:20:11.079 --> 00:20:12.440 Leave me here, go back. 319 00:20:13.880 --> 00:20:18.279 No, my leg is frozen. There is no feeling anymore. 320 00:20:18.599 --> 00:20:20.880 I shall not leave much longer. 321 00:20:21.000 --> 00:20:23.039 Don't be afore after arrest. 322 00:20:23.119 --> 00:20:23.960 You'll be able to go. 323 00:20:23.960 --> 00:20:25.799 On Sonday night comes. 324 00:20:26.319 --> 00:20:30.359 If we are both caught here, we both die. There 325 00:20:30.480 --> 00:20:34.359 will be snow, much snow. Leave me, so we're going 326 00:20:34.359 --> 00:20:34.960 back together. 327 00:20:35.480 --> 00:20:40.880 Please let me sleep, Let me sleep here. I cannot go. 328 00:20:41.200 --> 00:20:45.839 You've got tonsan no more. The ridge is only about 329 00:20:45.839 --> 00:20:47.440 a half mile from there. It won't be too. 330 00:20:47.279 --> 00:20:57.039 Bad, no non. 331 00:20:53.400 --> 00:20:56.240 Come on, son, come on, you're not going to sleep, 332 00:20:56.359 --> 00:20:56.920 You'll be all right. 333 00:20:57.279 --> 00:20:57.920 You shirt. 334 00:21:00.119 --> 00:21:02.880 Turned, and for an instant I saw it outlined against 335 00:21:02.880 --> 00:21:07.440 the snow, crouching of medium height. It was covered with 336 00:21:07.559 --> 00:21:12.079 thick hair. The face was reddish and bare, a semi 337 00:21:12.160 --> 00:21:17.200 human face. And it was not an ape. The thing 338 00:21:17.240 --> 00:21:18.720 made it from endous sleep and was gone. 339 00:21:18.759 --> 00:21:23.519 But I hid it. I knew I hit it. 340 00:21:22.000 --> 00:21:23.240 Was he did you kill it? 341 00:21:23.319 --> 00:21:23.400 No? 342 00:21:23.640 --> 00:21:24.200 I don't think so. 343 00:21:24.359 --> 00:21:27.720 Then it will be back. It has tisted blood. You 344 00:21:27.799 --> 00:21:28.400 must leave me. 345 00:21:28.480 --> 00:21:33.920 No, get up, Get up, come up, let's go. 346 00:21:40.319 --> 00:21:46.640 That sound him very sorry, sad? Will you ask the 347 00:21:47.039 --> 00:21:49.640 hell over to make a prayer for me? 348 00:21:50.079 --> 00:21:51.880 Sure? Sure? I well? 349 00:21:51.960 --> 00:21:56.119 My song, but my pay to my wife in dirty healing. 350 00:21:58.000 --> 00:22:00.599 He' sorry sad. 351 00:22:03.839 --> 00:22:08.240 The song, the song. 352 00:22:27.839 --> 00:22:32.039 And the darkness came and with its shadows in the snow, 353 00:22:32.920 --> 00:22:39.079 every hillock mound became the thing, motionless, waiting in my mind. 354 00:22:39.119 --> 00:22:42.799 I kept seeing it, its long arms, powerful, and the 355 00:22:42.920 --> 00:22:47.279 dreadful clause it must have possessed. I carried my gun 356 00:22:47.319 --> 00:22:49.119 and my gloved hand, but I knew that I couldn't 357 00:22:49.119 --> 00:22:52.279 fire it unless I was bare handed, and that met 358 00:22:52.359 --> 00:22:55.960 my hand would freeze to the gun. And then suddenly 359 00:22:56.000 --> 00:23:04.119 I felt myself slipping. It was a short incline, but 360 00:23:04.160 --> 00:23:06.839 when I reached the bottom, the gun was gone. 361 00:23:07.599 --> 00:23:11.400 I'd lost it. I got to find it. 362 00:23:11.880 --> 00:23:16.200 I got to find and I saw a glitter of 363 00:23:16.200 --> 00:23:19.200 metal in the snow ten feet away, and at the 364 00:23:19.240 --> 00:23:21.720 same time, above me, at the top of the bank, 365 00:23:22.519 --> 00:23:26.319 the thing. It stood swaying a little, looking down at me. 366 00:23:28.880 --> 00:23:33.599 I moved slowly, slowly, inch my way toward the gun, 367 00:23:35.400 --> 00:23:37.559 and as I drew closer, I kept my eyes looking up, 368 00:23:38.319 --> 00:23:40.240 but it didn't move, only stared down at me. 369 00:23:41.079 --> 00:23:42.359 And I thought I saw its. 370 00:23:42.200 --> 00:23:46.839 Little eyes glittering, and I thought, if the gun's frozen. Now, 371 00:23:47.519 --> 00:23:51.359 if it's frozen, it doesn't fire. And I was nearer 372 00:23:51.400 --> 00:23:54.359 to it, near enough to tick off my glove. But 373 00:23:54.480 --> 00:23:56.440 that moment in which I'd have to bend to pick 374 00:23:56.480 --> 00:23:59.039 it up. That's when it would leap down at me, 375 00:23:59.279 --> 00:24:03.160 tear my rod out terror. I had the gun, and 376 00:24:03.200 --> 00:24:17.720 I pulled the checker, and it lay there, strange, terrifying. 377 00:24:19.039 --> 00:24:24.079 It's blood staining the snow, and it looked at. 378 00:24:23.920 --> 00:24:37.559 Me, looked at me until the sound died away. It 379 00:24:37.640 --> 00:24:41.880 was dead, but the eyes kept on staring. 380 00:24:46.880 --> 00:24:48.920 It must have been the shots that loosened the snow 381 00:24:48.920 --> 00:24:50.000 and ice on the ridge above. 382 00:24:50.640 --> 00:24:53.599 I heard the sound and I ran ran. 383 00:25:07.680 --> 00:25:10.839 It passed me and swept on down toward the valley, 384 00:25:11.720 --> 00:25:17.839 the thunder of it dying in the distance, and when 385 00:25:17.839 --> 00:25:23.880 I went back, there was nothing there. It was buried 386 00:25:25.039 --> 00:25:32.000 somewhere on the tons of snow. I made my way 387 00:25:32.039 --> 00:25:34.279 back to the Wrong Book village. 388 00:25:34.880 --> 00:25:39.960 I don't remember how. I didn't remember anything for two 389 00:25:40.000 --> 00:25:40.519 weeks after. 390 00:25:43.240 --> 00:25:44.319 But I'm alive. 391 00:25:46.480 --> 00:25:52.400 And I'm not going back there again. That's all I know. 392 00:25:54.920 --> 00:25:55.799 Oh want to know. 393 00:25:58.039 --> 00:26:14.200 About the Abominable snow Men. 394 00:26:14.359 --> 00:26:18.680 Escape has brought you The Abominable Snowman, Written and directed 395 00:26:18.720 --> 00:26:23.920 by Anthony Ellis, starring William Conrad Is Lane. Featured in 396 00:26:23.960 --> 00:26:28.359 the cast were Anthony Barrett high Averbach, Jack Krushian, and 397 00:26:28.559 --> 00:26:32.680 Edgar barrier. The special music for Escape was composed and 398 00:26:32.759 --> 00:26:34.759 conducted by Leith Stephens. 399 00:26:36.119 --> 00:26:41.920 Next week, you are. 400 00:26:41.839 --> 00:26:45.799 A passenger of board a submarine making its last peaceful 401 00:26:45.920 --> 00:26:51.160