Bigfoot, Sasquatch and Yeti: Among Thieves has its own take on the Yeti legend, in that they're actually just residents of Shambhala dressed up in giant fur suits to act as scarecrows.
Ultimately, they both turn out to be heroes, but the fact that Nate chooses Elena over Chloe in the end symbolizes that he wants out of the life of a thief, a theme that's expanded in the next two games.
Elena urges Nate to stop Lazarevic, but Chloe wants him to save his own skin while he can. Chloe is cynical, a sexpot, a thief after the next big score, and looks out for herself first and foremost. Elena is idealistic, a Girl Next Door, and puts herself into extraordinary danger to tail Lazarevic and document his crimes so that NATO can intervene against him. "bad girl" Chloe Frazer, roughly representing the side of Nate that's a hero and the side that's a thief. Betty and Veronica: "Good girl" Elena Fisher vs.Bedouin Rescue Service: Tibetan villagers rescue Nate from the mountain trainwreck.After a brief silence, a baffled Nate asks him if he has brought a hooker to a church before. Beat: During the opening to Chapter 3, Sully says he is sweating like a hooker in church.He's introduced knifing one of his own men for stealing a trinket from his camp, and when he first meets Nate, it's after invading and slaughtering his way through countless Nepalese to loot several temples. Balkan Bastard: Lazarevic is introduced as a Serbian war criminal, and repeatedly proves himself to be extremely evil.Mere seconds later, the two are joined by Elena herself, who jokes about her near-death experience and reveals that the tombstone is actually Schäfer's. The camera zooms into her body, which fades away as the scene transitions to Nathan and Tenzin praying in front of a tombstone. Bait-and-Switch: In the final cutscene before the credits, Elena collapses from her wounds and Drake desperately begs her to stay alive.Nate abstains, because the Guardians are more than happy to kill Lazarevic themselves. Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work: After Lazarevic is defeated, he demands Nate kill him.Automatic Crossbows: The crossbows have an insanely fast firing rate for low tech crossbows.The train can climb slopes far steeper than is possible in real life.In spite of crashing through several large boulders near the track, it somehow picks up speed. A train car gets blown off the track and starts rolling sideways down the track.
The only real good that came out of it is that he got the phurba back. The train is derailed by an explosion and he's nearly killed as a result.
At the start of the battle, Nathan has no anti-tank weaponry, forcing the player to flee from the tank for a while until he gets to a spot where Nate encounters enemy soldiers armed with Rocket-Propelled-Grenades.