27/04/2026
Norwich, GB 6 C
Researching and reporting on the lives of some really interesting people (RIP)

ED SMYLIE, aged 95

An aeronautical engineer who worked for NASA, he saved the lives of the three astronauts on Apollo 13 by a piece of brilliant improvisation.

BALTAZAR USHCA, aged 80

From rural Ecuador he was the last Iceman, digging out ice from the mountains of the Andes with only help from his donkey – and selling it at local markets.