'Yeti hand' replica to be returned to Nepal monastery

Peter Byrne, the leader of the 1950s expedition to find the abominable snowman, said that while the skull was probably made of goat or antelope skin, the hand did not match the skeleton of a human or a primate.  Experts who examined the 'yeti hand' could not conclusively prove what it was Mr Byrne managed to take one of the bones from the hand out of Nepal to his friend, the Hollywood actor James Stewart, who was on holiday at the time with his wife in Calcutta.  James Stewart's wife then placed the bone in her lingerie box and smuggled it into England where it was examined by a professor at Oxford University who said he could not conclusively say what kind of bone it was.  In the 1990s, an American television channel ran a documentary about the hand and skull. Shortly after, both were stolen from the monastery.  Mr Allsop said that he decided to make replicas of the hand and skull after trekking in the Everest region.  He approached the head of the New Zealand firm Weta Workshop, who were responsible for crafting the special effects and props for the Lord of the Rings films.  They agreed to make the replicas for free from photographs.   link