Take for example the Disney Corporation’s “museum” before you get on the ride. For mere educational reasons, it now serves a function to info a broader public of the factual underpinnings of what many before this would have assumed are merely silly “mythical” stories versus factual legends about the Abominable Snowmen.

More to the point of fieldwork, Disney actually funded an expedition to the Himalayas in support of background research for this attraction, and Corwin’s documentary on Discovery will give insights into that.

There is no stretch including this entire event, attraction, museum, funding, and expedition in the realm of cryptozoology. It would be ignoring the obvious to exclude Expedition Everest’s impact on cryptozoology.