Friday, October 18, 2013

Hunt for the Abominable Snowman



Good Video
Good video. National Geographic quality. I would recommend this vid to anyone with an interest in this subject. There is a lot of badly produced junk out there. This video is not one of them. You will not be disappointed.

Solid, modern, but nothing new
A solid entry his doesn't add much to the conversation that isn't already covered in the "In Search of History" Abominable Snowman special from History Channel (in fact, that has a little more in some instances) and this simply re-interviews many of the same people--from shirpas to academics--a few years later. This one is billed more as a modern reality TV adventure (like Man vs Wild) and it delivers on that to some degree, but not in spades. Our host is a famous mountaineer/kayaker and we spend a lot more time than usual focused on his trek into the Himalayas, which is fun but ultimately fruitless. From what I've seen, this is one of the three best yeti videos from a major distributer (with Monster Quest and the History Channel piece), but all of the information will be very familiar to anyone who has seen a yeti documentary before or done even the most rudimentary internet research. In fact, the best "new" yeti/bigfoot report I've heard was a BBC podcast about a new wrinkle in the...

very good
new stuff. i liked it. my boyfriend liked it too. it was modern and fun to see the interviews and footage of the Himalayans.

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