Photos from the 2011 Yeti Expedition in Siberia

Let's start with the geography: Kemerovo is located in Siberia, which is part of Russia, the largest country in the world.

Siberia is huge! It stretches from the Ural mountains on the west to the Pacific Ocean on the east. All of Europe could fit inside of Siberia several times over. Siberia is well known for its huge deposits of natural resources such as coal, gas, oil, fur, timber, etc.  The largest cities in Siberia are Novosibirsk, Omsk, Tomsk, Kemerovo, Novokuznetsk, Krasnoyarsk, and Irkutsk.

Kemerovo Region is located in the southern part of western Siberia, about 3,500 km from Moscow (four hours by air). The population is over 3 million, most people live in large cities. In fact, the Kemerovo Region is a very urbanised part of Russia, with about 87% of the population residing in cities. Kemerovo Region is also known as Kuzbass - from "Kuznetsk basin" - the name of the largest coal deposit on Earth, which is located here.

The climate in Kemerovo region is extreme in many ways. Temperatures reach extremes of -45 C in winter and + 45 C in summer. Snow covers everything throughout Winter.

Back to the Yeti: Yesterday, an international team of Yeti hunters claimed to have discovered "indisputable proof" for the existence of the Russian Bigfoot in an isolated part of Russia.

The coal-rich Kemerovo region in the Kuzbass where the discovery was made is a remote wilderness. During the four-day expedition to the region, the team discovered a single footprint and a clump of grey-hair of the creature in a cave. According to reports, 'They found his footprints, his supposed bed, and various markers with which the Yeti uses to denote his territory.' The markers appeared to be mainly broken trees.

Here are a few photos from the 2011 Yeti Expedition:

A skier hits the slope of Zelenaya Mountain outside the Siberian town of Kemerovo, where scientists believe the legendary Siberian Snowman may live.

Hair's proof ... 7cm long 'Yeti hair'
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Azasskaya cave ... where hair was found
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Evidence? ... a Yeti 'construction'
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'Nest' ... found in woods
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Team ...  Bindernagel, Zelenkova,, Burtsev and Meldrum
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"Getting to the cave where a group of Yetis lives or has lived was not easy. Local woodmen and hunters came to welcome our team and take us to the cave."
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"We were shown plenty of traces and signs that were bound to prove that the Yeti does in fact exist. We found the snowman’s “winter lair”: the Yeti snaps off a thick tree, at about 50 centimeters up from the ground, and piles branches. Half an hour later I saw something that genuinely surprised me: an arch of trees. Their branches interwove in such a way that you could tell it was made by hand – or paw. There are two theories as to the origin of those arches: either the Yeti uses them to mark territory or to adorn the forest."
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One of the ten footprints found in the cave
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Yeti footprint cast
Jeff Meldrum

Researchers found left footprint of Yeti, but no right footprint was found.

"Bigfoot playing hopscotch..." - Dr. Jeffery Meldrum

Russian News Report

In a remote area of Siberia, local stories and native rituals speak of a "Snow Person," a Russian yeti that has reportedly left footprints in a local cave. WSJ's Alan Cullison reports from Tashtagol.