Yeti At McGill

Amazingly, my last Friday introduction of the classic film The Abominable Snowman of the Himalayas and the new hardbound release of Ivan T. Sanderson’s Abominable Snowmen: Legend Come to Life at the Rubin Museum of Art in New York City, is being mirrored (skeptically) with something quite similar occurring tomorrow in Quebec.

At McGill University, in Montreal, Quebec, there will be a screening of the same film, preceded by an intriguing lecture.

The Redpath’s ever-popular Freaky Fridays series hits the New Year running, or at least ambling with a human-like gait, with André Costopoulos, Anthropology, presenting “Extreme survival: Hominids on the edge.” Costopoulos will explore the selective pressures faced by early hominids living on environmental fringes. The lecture will be followed by a screening of the celluloid classic The Abominable Snowman of the Himalayas (1957), in which a kindly English botanist and a gruff American scientist lead an expedition in search of the legendary Yeti. Freaky Fridays is an ongoing public outreach program in which McGill scientists confront myths, debunk popular misconceptions and clarify science.

“Extreme survival: Hominids on the edge” Jan. 11; 5:00 p.m.; Redpath Museum auditorium; 859 Sherbrooke West, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec. Admission is free, but seating is limited.

(Of course, as noted before, this movie contains a fictionalized version of Tom Slick in pursuit of Yeti.)

Loren Coleman About Loren Coleman
Loren Coleman is one of the world’s leading cryptozoologists, some say “the” leading living cryptozoologist. Certainly, he is acknowledged as the current living American researcher and writer who has most popularized cryptozoology in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Starting his fieldwork and investigations in 1960, after traveling and trekking extensively in pursuit of cryptozoological mysteries, Coleman began writing to share his experiences in 1969. An honorary member of Ivan T. Sanderson’s Society for the Investigation of the Unexplained in the 1970s, Coleman has been bestowed with similar honorary memberships of the North Idaho College Cryptozoology Club in 1983, and in subsequent years, that of the British Columbia Scientific Cryptozoology Club, CryptoSafari International, and other international organizations. He was also a Life Member and Benefactor of the International Society of Cryptozoology (now-defunct). Loren Coleman’s daily blog, as a member of the Cryptomundo Team, served as an ongoing avenue of communication for the ever-growing body of cryptozoo news from 2005 through 2013. He returned as an infrequent contributor beginning Halloween week of 2015. Coleman is the founder in 2003, and current director of the International Cryptozoology Museum in Portland, Maine.

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