Tintin in Tibet is the twentieth volume of
The Adventures of Tintin, the comics series by Belgian cartoonist
Hergé. It was serialised weekly from September 1958 to November 1959 in
Tintin magazine and published as a book in 1960. Hergé considered it his favourite
Tintin adventure and an emotional effort, as he created it while suffering from traumatic nightmares and a personal conflict while deciding to leave his wife of three decades for a younger woman. The story tells of the young reporter
Tintin in search of his friend
Chang Chong-Chen, who the authorities claim has died in a plane crash in the
Himalayas. Convinced that Chang has survived, Tintin leads his companions across the Himalayas to the plateau of
Tibet, along the way encountering the mysterious
Yeti.