Is the Abominable Snowman...a Polar Bear?

 There's actually a theory that the famous "Yeti" is a species of white bear.

And there's a group of polar bears that don't need sea ice. These two things might not be connected, but the Greenland population, who live at the mouth of a glacier and hunt from ice calved from it...are also quite happy to cross mountains to look for food. They're a small population, but...

Could something similar to polar bears have retreated to the Himalayas when the Ice Age ended? That's the theory. More likely, if they exist, they weren't polar bears but something more like the hybrids that exist when polars and grizzlies overlap range.

But the fact that polar bears can and do climb mountains makes one wonder...