"The ""Pangboche Hand"" is used as proof of the existence of what?"
Pangboche Hand have got a very, very strong match to a number of existing reference sequences on human DNA databases... Human was what we were expecting and human is what we got." Pangboche Hand The Pangboche Hand is an artifact from a Buddhist monastery in Pangboche, Nepal. Supporters contend that the hand is from a Yeti, a scientifically unrecognized animal purported to live in the Himalayan mountains. A finger bone from the hand was tested and the DNA shown to be human. Oil businessman and adventurer Tom Slick first heard accounts of the possible existence of a "Yeti hand" held as a
Pangboche Hand to the West. During later Tom Slick-sponsored expeditions in and around the Himalayas, his associates gathered more information on the "Pangboche hand," and an effort to further examine it was planned. In 1959 Peter Byrne, a member of Slick's expedition that year, reportedly stole pieces of the artifact after the monks who owned it refused to allow its removal for study. Byrne claimed to have replaced the stolen bone fragments with human bones, rewrapping the hand to disguise his theft. Byrne smuggled the bones from Nepal into India, after which actor James Stewart allegedly smuggled the hand out of the