Cheats Death (Press Photo of Flight Engineer Emil Kading, Who Would Survive for Over a Month in the Winter Wilds of Northern British Columbia)

Press photo, black & white; 10 x 8; typed paper tag, agency ink stamp, and production marks to verso; 1" strip originally detached and re-attached to left margin; overall in very good condition.Allegedly, the very first photo after Emil Kading was found, in the camp, where he had made his last stand. In the late Fall of 1930, Kading and a charter pilot named E.A. "Paddy" Burke had been hired to fly a miner named "Three Finger" Bob Martin across the Canadian wilderness in a Junkers F13 on floats. Attempting an emergency landing because of bad weather, one of floats would be severely damaged, disabling the airplane. Poorly dressed and without adequate supplies, the trio attempted to walk to a supply cache they were aware of further North. Burke would eventually die of starvation and exposure, while the remaining two would continue walking for three weeks, before giving up hope, making a primitive camp, and waiting for death. Though, initially, a massive search-and-rescue for them would be launched, the only reason they would be found would be the tenacity of a young pilot - Everett Wasson - who would continue flying a search pattern almost two weeks after the rescue effort had been cancelled.…