SOURCE: "The Creature of the Snows" (Saturday Evening Post, October 29, 1960) by William Sambrot

DESCRIPTION: "They were covered with downy hair, nearly white, resembling nothing so much as tight-fitting leotards. The female was exactly like any woman on earth except for the hair. No larger than most women, with arms slightly longer, more muscular. Thighs heavier, legs out of proportion to the trunk, shorter. Breasts full and firm...It was huge, by far twice the size of the female below...The creature (man?) made no move against him, and  Ed stared at it, breathing rapidly, shallowly, and with difficulty, noting with his photographer's eyes the immense chest span, the easy rise and fall of his breathing, the large, square, white teeth, the somber cast of the face. There was long sandy fur on the shoulders, chest and back, shortening to off-white over the rest of the magnificent torso. Ears rather small and close to the head. Short, thick neck, rising up from the broad shoulders to the back of the head in a straight line. Toes long and definitely prehensile." ("The Creature of the Snows" William Sambrot)

NOTES: An expedition goes to the Everest area of the Himalayas to find some creatures snapped in a blurry photo by a hang-glider. After two months of nothing the team is about to head back. Ed McKale, the photographer, goes just a bit farther than the rest and encounters a family of Yeti, the creatures of the snows. A female plays with two offspring. then Ed encounters the male. After the two pass an unspoken understanding, Ed returns to camp and never tells of his encounter.

HISTORY: Most stories of Yeti feature nasty ape monsters like the one on ice Planet Hoth in The Empire Strikes Back. Sambrot's Yeti are peaceful and fully human in their way. Ed McKale makes a humane choice and leaves them to their icy mountain world.

From the second (fifth) Star Wars film -- Space Yeti!