Closer to home is the realm of the humanoid Yeti, the so-called Abominable Snowman of the Himalayas, said to be a denizen of the high pinnacles of eternal snow. During the 1950s-1960s, when the Cold War was at its peak, and Earth a ticking doomsday clock minutes away from nuclear Armageddon, inexplicable phenomena like UFOs, and little green men from Mars, provided diverting distraction from the looming threat of destruction.