Tombazi (Νικόλαος Τομπάζης, Nikólaos Tompázis 1894–1986) was a Greek photographer who, on a British Geological Expedition in 1925, apparently sighted a Yeti creature at 15,000 feet in the Himalayas of Tibet.
Tombazi was born in 1894 in St Petersburg, Russia, where his father served as Ambassador in the Greek Embassy,[1] although his birth was registered in Hydra, the family home.
[1] Described as “an adventurer in life and art”,[1] Tombazi's main outside interests were photography and mountaineering, alongside others such as fishing and breeding pedigree dogs.
Working in collaboration with the Archaeological Society he recorded the excavations by the archaeologists Takis Theocharis at the Askitario site at Rafina and Yannis Papadimitriou at Brauron and Merenda and he became known as one of the best photographers in the field.
[1] In 1962 Tombazi visited Mount Athos and took a series of photographs of the architecture and art of the monasteries as well as recording the daily life of the monks in the Athonite community.