Allusions: the Abominable Snowman

We've all heard of the "Abominable Snowman", but do we know when the sightings of the Abominable Snowman first started?

An unidentified creature of the Himalayas, which derives its name from Tibetan meetoh kangmi (abominable snowmen) or yeti.

It is said to raid mountain villages and to be tall, powerful, and bear-like, with a near-human face.

The name became known to European mountaineers attempting to climb Mount Everest in the 1920s and was popularized by climbing expeditions in the 1950s.

In 1960, Sir Edmund Hillary found footprints which seemed to be those of an animal such as a bear.

In 1953, David Eccles, Minister of Works responsible for the Coronation decorations in London, became known as the abominable Showman. Charles de Gaulle, having obstructed British entry to the European Common Market in the 1960s by saying, "Non," was dubbed "the Abominable No-man."