Brian Blessed reckons he'd survive a yeti attack – all because of two specific body parts
EXCLUSIVE: The 'Gordon’s Alive' actor and explorer is convinced Abominable Snowmen are real and says he has heard many 'first hand' accounts of close encounters
Brian Blessed has revealed how to survive a yeti attack - run while the beasts are struggling to control their "long sagging breasts."
The "Gordon’s Alive" actor and explorer is convinced Abominable Snowmen are real and says he has heard many "first hand" accounts of encounters.
He said John Baptist Lucius Noel - the official cameraman on George Mallory’s historic ascent of Mount Everest in 1924 - told him what to do if he ever came face-to-face with one of the giant ape-like creatures said to inhabit the Himalayas.
"I did hear that when a yeti does approach you in Tibet, you know, particularly the ladies, they have long sagging breasts,’’ said Brian.
"So you run downhill and they throw their breasts over their shoulders.
"So by the time they throw them over their shoulders you can get away.’’
Boom-voice Brian, 88, one of the Daily Star’s biggest fans, starred in 1980 comic movie space opera Flash Gordon, Star Wars: The Phantom Menace and smash hit TV comedy Blackadder.
Famous for uttering the sci-movie catchphrase "Gordon’s alive" in his trademark Earth-trembling tones he is also a real life adventurer who has himself made three bids to climb Everest without extra supply.
Though he did not reach the summit he did make it to 28,200ft in 1993 - less than 1,000ft from the top.
He has scaled Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, Aconcagua in Argentina and undertaken an expedition into the Venezuelan jungle, during which he survived a plane crash.
Brian is the oldest man to have reached the North Magnetic Pole on foot where he said he sent a polar bear packing by punching it on the nose to stop his fellow explorers shooting it.
He has also climbed one of Mongolia’s highest peaks with the help of a wolf that he fed Mars bars.
Though he had never seen a yeti, the actor told the We Can Be Weirdos podcast Mongolians had told him they "existed," lived in large families and could be seen migrating in the late autumn.
"When I talked to the Mongolians they maintained that in the summer and late autumn there would be mass migrations of yetis,’’ he said.
"That they were basically men between 8ft and 9ft tall and very hairy - and the women - very, very hairy.
"They went across the whole of Mongolia into the forests beyond.
"The Mongolian people kept away from them.
"They never interfered with them.’’