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A TV producer receives a request to produce a film of the Abominable Snowman and so he and his crew set off for the Himalayas. He attempts to fake it by dressing up in a costume, but one of his assistants sees him and follows behind. Suddenly, he is seized by a much larger furry creature who claims that he had been searching for him. The creature takes the producer to a drill machine and the assistant sneaks in too. They travel deep underground to a city of lizardmen who have been looking for a lost explorer who wears a shaggy costume for protection from the cold. He must be still alive as they live for a thousand years. They are hostile to the producer and attempt to place him into a cage so he makes a break for it and runs into the cave of a thousand winds. While he is helplessly buffeted by winds from different directions, the assistant sneaks up behind the lizardmen guarding the cave's mouth and lobs explosives at them which throw them helplessly into the cave's strong winds as well. The assistant extends a rope to the producer and they they escape toward the black pool which, unknown to them, contains the octo-monster. They loose themselves from its clutches and come across the drill machine while fleeing lizardman pursuit. They take the machine back to the surface and destroy it with the remaining explosives. Since that was the only one and the lizardmen lack the skill to build another, they know that there is a single lizardman on the surface forlornly waiting for a rescue that will never come.