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Zaluk Shivalaya Mandir

With and without snow.....the road at Zaluk

Snow filled Road at Zaluk (East Sikkim) and the same route when there is no snowfall.

Road at Zaluk (East Sikkim)

Yeti sighted at Zaluk, Sikkim in 2004

  BY SHITAL PRADHAN I was at Zaluk last Friday, the day most of the couples across the globe were busy celebrating Valentine's Day. More or less an exciting adventure was awaiting us when we came to know that there was a Yeti sighting at this remote place in 2004 in April. Zaluk is a small place where the population is below 300 and the world-famous Changu Lake is an hour and a half drive from Rongli Bazaar. We were a five-member team myself, Praveen, Rocky, Swarup, and Beren. The video above is a short interview I took where the prime eye witness Nar Bahadur Sunar confirms that he along with other 10 labourers and a GREF Officer had come across a Yeti in April of 2004 while going for daily work. Sunar a farmer now was working as a baidar then. They were in a vehicle and the "animal man" as he was called was on the other side of the road along the Valley walking on two feet along with the bushes of pareng ( a bamboo variety). The distance between the...