Grover Krantz took a narrow view of hominology worldwide. He felt there was only one new species of hairy bipedal hominoid to be discovered, and any reports from around the globe had to all be of the same thing. He and I discussed this topic often, and you know where I came out on that “one species” view.

With regard to the Yeti, Krantz was also guilty of what he accused other scientists of doing to “his” Sasquatch. He felt that Sasquatch evidence was routinely ignored, overlooked, and unread about Bigfoot, but, in general, that’s exactly what he did with Yeti material.

The quote from Krantz above, on the Shipton Yeti track, placed in context, is very revealing. Krantz devoted one paragraph to the Yeti/Abominable Snowmen, and only refers to having read one major source on the Shipton tracks: Ivan T. Sanderson.

Krantz, without much study, therefore, dismisses, ignores, or may have been unaware of decades of serious scientific research on the Yeti, as expressed in the sentence quoted above. If you read Krantz’s other sarcastic sentence right before it, you will see more deeply into Krantz’s foundation thinking: “Ivan Sanderson made much of this photo, along with native reports, to build a picture of some kind of ape that was only partially bipedal.”

The other photographs of good tracks and casts did turn up, i.e. the Cronin-Emery evidence from 1972. Krantz seems to have ignored how they fit into the overall Yeti picture with the Shipton photos.

I applaud Jeff Meldrum for pushing the envelope even more than Krantz. And not being afraid of what he might find.