Mark Mason

Abominably elusive

Graham Hoyland describes how, when making the ascent with the actor, the sherpas christened him ‘the Abdominal Snowman’

issue 16 June 2018

In 1969 the body of an ape-like creature, preserved in ice inside an insulated box, came to light in Minnesota. Its provenance was unclear, but the rumour went round that it was a Bigfoot, the North American equivalent of the Himalayan yeti. After two days peering through the box’s glass cover, the Belgian zoologist Bernard Heuvelmans convinced himself that the rumour was correct.

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