Yeti At McGill
Posted by: Loren Coleman on January 10th, 2008
The Year of the Yeti continues.
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.
Here’s the announcement from McGill:
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.)
