The search to find the Yeti can be traced back to the time of Alexander the Great. Having heard stories of the Yeti he demanded to see one for himself, but local people told him they were unable to present one because the creatures could not survive at that low an altitude.
In the 1950s the Nepali government cashed in on the increasingly popular Yeti myth by issuing Yeti-hunting licenses priced at 400 dollars per Yeti. To date no-one has succeeded in capturing a specimen dead, or alive.