Without him I'd have died of cold and hunger." They are met by the Grand Abbot and an envoy of monks, who presents Tintin with a silk scarf in honour of the bravery he has shown, and the strength of his friendship to Chang. "Of course I don't, Tintin," says Chang, "he took care of me. Chang calls the yeti "Poor Snowman", and Tintin comments that he didn't call him "abominable". Chang is carried out by the two of them, and he tells the story of how he survived, and how the yeti took care of him. The yeti, frightened by the light, runs out of the cave, bowling over the Captain, who has come to save Tintin. Haddock fails to warn Tintin that the yeti returns, and he reaches toward Tintin, who sets off the flash bulb of the camera. Inside the cave, Tintin finally finds Chang, who is feverish and shaking. Tintin heads in with the camera, under orders from the Captain to take a photograph of the yeti if he can. They wait outside until they see the yeti leave the cave. Haddock initially gives up and refuses to follow Tintin anymore, but eventually arrives in Charabang, and the two of them, and Snowy, head to the Horn of the Yak - the mountain where Chang is said to be - on the final lap. Tintin heads to Charabang, a village near the mountain where Blessed Lightning said Chang was. Haddock doesn't believe the monk is genuine, but the Abbot explains to him that many things that occur in Tibet seem unbelievable to Westerners. Blessed Lightning has another vision, through which Tintin learns Chang is still alive, in a mountain cave, but the "migou", or yeti, is there. After Tintin tells the Grand Abbot why they are there, the Abbot tells him to abandon his quest and return to his country. The monks head after him.Ĭaptain Haddock awakes to find himself in the monastery. Snowy lets go of the message when he finds a bone, but then realises what he's done, and runs to the monastery to make someone follow him. Up in the mountains, Tintin regains consciousness and, unable to reach the monastery himself, writes a note and gives it to Snowy to deliver. An avalanche occurs, and the three are buried in the snow.īlessed Lightning, a monk at the monastery, 'sees' Tintin, Snowy, Haddock and Tharkey in the snow, in a vision. They head on through the night, and eventually see the monastery of Khor-Biyong. They pitch their tent in a storm, but it blows away, into the face of the yeti. Tharkey, moved by Tintin's selflessness, returns just in time to save them. He wants Tintin to cut the rope to save himself, but Tintin refuses, saying that either they're both saved or they die together. Haddock loses his grip and hangs perilously over a cliff edge.
Tharkey decides not to go on any further, believing Chang to be dead, and Tintin, Snowy and Haddock head after a scarf that Tintin spotted on a cliff face. Following a snowstorm in which Tintin falls down a crevasse, he rejoins Haddock and Tharkey, who had sheltered in the plane. Tintin sets off with Snowy to try and trace Chang's steps, and find a cave where Chang carved his name on a rock. They reach the crash site, where Tintin finds a teddy bear half-buried in the snow, which he believes belonged to Chang.
The porters abandon the group, and Tintin, Haddock and Tharkey go on, taking the porters' loads as well. They meet with a sherpa named Tharkey, and accompanied by some porters, they head to the crash site.įollowing a number of events, they discover footprints in the snow that Tharkey claims belong to the yeti. Believing that his dream was a telepathic vision, Tintin travels to Kathmandu, followed by a skeptical Captain Haddock. The next morning, he reads in the paper that it was Chang's plane that crashed in Tibet. That evening at the hotel, Tintin has a vivid dream that his young Chinese friend Chang Chong Chen survived a plane crash. Whilst on holiday in Vargèse with Captain Haddock, Tintin reads about a plane crash in the Gosain Than massif in the Himalayas.
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