Doctor killed by falling ice while hiking with sons in New Hampshire's White Mountains

Dr. Judith Pinsker was killed by falling ice while hiking in New Hampshire on Sunday. (Tufts Medical Center)

A Tufts Medical Center doctor died Sunday after she was struck by falling ice while hiking with her sons in the White Mountains in New Hampshire, officials said.

The New Hampshire Fish and Game Department said the incident took place shortly after noon when the woman was hit by a falling piece of ice on the Frankenstein Cliff Trail in Hart's Location, located near Mt. Washington.

"Unfortunately, her injury was severe and despite the best efforts of her family, friends, and volunteers she did not survive," the agency said in a statement.

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Tufts Medical Center confirmed to Boston 25 News that Dr. Judith Pinsker, a Wellesley, Mass. resident and primary care physician, died after sustaining a serious head injury.

Officials in New Hampshire said that Pinsker was hiking with 10 people at the time, including her husband and sons.

“She was a force of nature. She maintained so many different activities in addition to her work,” Pinsker’s husband, Dr. Benjamin Smith, told the Boston Globe.

Pinsker was hit by a falling piece of ice on the Frankenstein Cliff Trail in Hart's Location, located in New Hampshire's White Mountains. (Google Street View)

Members of Mountain Rescue Service, Bartlett Jackson Ambulance, the Carroll County Sheriff’s Office and the DHART life flight helicopter responded along with Fish and Game conservation officers.

Ice climbers in the area also assisted the hiking party with Pinsker and she was transported to a nearby parking lot before being sent by ambulance to the Memorial Hospital in North Conway.

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One of the witnesses to the incident told WBZ-TV that the 57-year-old was unconscious as she was carried out on a stretcher.

“She had a severe head injury and severe loss of blood and there was a doctor on scene providing not CPR, but rescue breathing,” mountain rescuer Joe Klementovich said.

Klementovich, who is an experienced climber, told WBZ that rain and warm weather may have created the conditions that led the ice to melt.

“Not a freak accident. An unfortunate one for sure,” he said.

Pinsker had been at Tufts for more than 20 years and "leaves a loving family and hundreds of Primary Care Boston patients who have been fortunate to experience her expertise and warmth," according to a statement obtained by Boston 25.