British adventurer Alastair Humphreys on his expedition to find Yeti

Alastair Humphreys, the man who spent four years cycling around the world, he's rowed across the Atlantic and he's walked across the Empty Quarter desert, now leading a team of people for his latest epic expedition to search Yeti in Bhutan.

The Yeti or Abominable  Snowmen,is an ape-like entity taller than an average human that is said to inhabit the Himalayan region of Nepal, Bhutan and Tibet.

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Under the direction of Humphreys and funded by the car company Skoda, a team of explorers will start in Samdrup Jongkhar in the south east of Bhutan before travelling north to an altitude of 3,530 metres (11,581 feet) to the 162,000 acre Sakteng Wildlife Sanctuary where the half-man, half-animal is thought to reside.

In fact, locals firmly believe in the Yeti’s existence, although experts have suggested in recent years that the creature could be a present day specimen of the giant ape ‘Gigantopithecus’, which is thought to be extinct.

‘I think it really depends on what you think of as the Yeti.I just read the explorer Reinhold Messner’s book and he got ridiculed for years by his mission to find the Yeti, but he tried to explain it as there being two things it could be – one is a Loch Ness monster fantasy and the other is genuine rare animal that is hard to spot.I like the idea of the legend as it gives the local area colour and identity, but I also like the idea that there might be rare animals living in parts of the world that haven’t been destroyed.’ – said Mr. Humphreys to MailOnline Travel.