FIERCE BLIZZARD
SOUTH ENGLAND SNOW BLOCKS ROADS LONDON. March 3 Bitterly cold conditions during the week-end brought heavy falls of snow in south-eastern England which blocked roads, cut off many villagers, and left them without food services. The snow, whipped by a 60-mile-an-hour wind which swept the Channel nearly clear of shipping, fell ceaselessly for 24 hours, and in some places piled up drifts as deep as 9ft. Sleighs were impressed to deliver newspapers between Deal and Dover. Conditions were also bad in the Midlands. northern England and Scotland. Major H. W. Tilman. leader of the 1938 ' Mount Everest expedition, was to-day rescued in a blizzard from an alpine hut 2500 ft. up Ben Nevis, where he was stranded for a week suffering from a leg injury. The rescuers battled their way to the hut through a fierce wind and blinding snow and carried Major Tilman by stretcher down the ice-covered mountain slopes.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 21962, 5 March 1946, Page 3
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