You ain't seen nothing yeti Reinhold Messner has conquered the world's most terrifying peaks. But his scariest encounter was not with a mountain. Has he finally unmasked the mythical Himalayan beast?

The Independent - London | October 4, 2000| | Copyright

"It's a nice view, isn't it?" says someone. Reinhold Messner is looking out across a panorama of London, over grimy rooftops on a rare smog-free day. He doesn't answer. Not surprising, perhaps, from a man who lives for part of the year in an Alpine castle surrounded on three sides by sheer rock, and who was the first person to climb all 14 mountains over 8,000m, and who has come face to face with a yeti.

Though many people know Messner, 54, for his mountaineering accomplishments, for almost 14 years he has quietly been pursuing the truth behind the myth of the "abominable snowman".

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