16th November 1972
A massive air hunt is under way for an English nurse lost with two Eskimo patients in frozen Arctic wastelands. On Wednesday (15-11-72), survival hopes rose dramatically after faint radio bleeps, believed to come from their crashed plane, were picked up. The tiny six-seater plane vanished a week ago as the nurse, blonde Judy Hill, 27, flew on a mission of mercy with her patients. Judy, from Kingsbridge, Devon -- known as "The Angel of the Snows" to the tiny Eskimo community at Spence Bay, 250 miles North of the Arctic Circle in Canada – had decided that the pair needed emergency treatment. In sub-zero temperatures, Judy and pilot Martin Hartwell took off with the patients to fly the 900 miles to the nearest hospital, at Yellowknife. Nothing was heard, and hopes were fading until the radio signals were picked up.
PICTURED: Judy treating an Eskimo before her ill-fated plane trip.
