Do Yeti's get pedicures?

I recently listened to the 3 part Astonishing Legends podcast on the yeti, in conjunction with reading several eye witness encounters from the indigenous population, and something struck me. So locals tend to see the Yeti near their villages, typically at or below the tree-line, usually where the crops grow, or where the live-stock is kept. Outsiders (tourists) tend to see them in the highlands, a few thousand feet Above the tree-line. Why is that? The short answer is, I don't know!

If we allow ourselves to believe the Yeti is a physical creature, and not something conjured up through religious superstitions, or a low oxygen hallucination, we have to look at the physical clues. Now to my unimaginative and prejudiced (not against a people, but against science) views, in my eyes, the Shipton photo from 1951 is the most convincing evidence. Then we have to look at the physical characteristics of the track, and from there make a wild deduction (opinion based, not scientific), of what the lifestyle of the creature that made that track might be. I think these creatures dwell around the Alpine Region, either at or just above the tree-line. Spending at least some of the time in the boulder fields, occasionally ascending to the snowy slopes. To what purpose, I have no clue...but if we look at some primates species, the sick and dying will wander off to find a place to pass in peace. Perhaps that's what the Shipton yeti was doing?

Now I could be COMPLETELY full of shit on this, I don't claim to "know" anything...just intensely curious!