The Big Three Series Part 1- The Yeti

The Big Three of cryptozoology are the three most well known cryptozoological animals according to western knowledge. Most people that are questioned concerning any one of these Three can honestly inform the surveyor that they are aware of these animals case. However, they also receive infinite scrutiny from researchers. As it turns out, the more famous the cryptid is, the more skeptical readers are (it runs by the same principle as the tabloids: the more famous the celebrity the more "material"  is available). Of all of the Big Three, the Yeti is perhaps the most famous on a worldwide scale.
The Yeti is a most fascinating creature that has a long history of interesting artifacts. It is to my belief that the Pangboche hand is by far the most controversial, yet interesting, artifact of this mystery. On the well documented Tom Slick Expedition, Peter Byrne scheduled a meeting with the lamas to see and examine the Pangboche hand. the results were not disappointing. He sent this letter to Tom Slick after the examination:
  

I shall not go into detail here how we got the thumb and right phalanx of the Pangboche Hand. I shall only say that we have it and the lamas of the monastery do not know that we have it. Because they do not know that we have there can not be any news on this or any publicity for some time... The Pangboche hand is still complete, as far as the lamas are concerned. It still has the thumb and index procimal phalanx. What they do not know and what they must never know is that the thumb and p. phalanx on the hand, at present, are human ones which we switched.

The hand was hidden in none other then Jimmy Stewart's girlfriend's suitcase and they were able to get it past Nepalese customs. It was examined and noted that it did resemble a hominid's hand. Whatever it was seemed part human and part gorilla. Perhaps that is what it is: a freak hybrid, but the possibilities are slim. What it most likely is is a Gigantopithecus blacki, a species of hominid that was thought to have gone extinct millions of years ago. It stood about 9 feet tall and resembled modern reports of the Yeti. It has similar footprints also. Most modern cryptozoologists sit around pondering the possibility of the Gigantopithecus blacki. It truly does make for a perfect theory.
N.A. Tombazi also had an interesting report concerning this member of the Big Three. He said
"Unquestionably, the figure in outline was exactly like a human being, walking upright and stopping occasionally to uproot or pull at some dwarf rhodendron bushes. It showed up dark against the snow and as far as I could make out, wore no clothes." This creature became even more strange with this report. But the stories were becoming scoffed at by the mainstream scientists of the day. The reports were becoming legends. This caused major skepticism. Reports would now become myth and they were passed of as hoaxes. Today more scientists have accepted that there most likely is something in the Himalayas and it is no hoax.