Tenby adventurer, Rosie Swale Pope, who is two- thirds through her round-the-world adventure, has been dramatically rescued after suffering frostbite in her big toe.
The 59-year-old grandmother was rescued by the Alaskan National Guard after becoming caught up in a severe Arctic storm while travelling on the frozen Yukon River.
She used her emergency beacon to call for help and a helicopter rescue team located her hunkered into her shelter on Henry Island on Sunday. She was then airlifted to the safety of Providence Hospital in Anchorage for treatment.
Rosie was en route to the town of Tanana, but severe weather conditions, even by Alaskan standards, caused her to have to hunker down and stay put, apparently, for the past several days.
Said her local co-ordinator, Ann Rowell: "I spoke to Rosie on Sunday and she is in good spirits. If she had the right antibiotics she would have been able to treat her toe herself. There is a strong possibility that she will lose the top of the toe, but she joked to me that it was too long anyway.
"Rosie also has a blister on another toe which has caused a swelling, so she is going to put her feet up for a couple of days and take it easy.
"A bit of a rest won't do her any harm as she has been pushing hard lately.
"There is no panic, it is just a nuisance and inconvenience."
This is another incident Rosie has encountered. On the Russian leg of her run she was held at knife- point during an attempt to steal her satellite phone. Further on, she suffered minor injuries after being hit by a bus. At that time, she was told she had pneumonia.
Rosie, who left Tenby in October 2004, took on the challenge to raise funds for a Russian children's home in Kitezh, and to increase awareness of the Prostate Cancer charity after the death of her husband Clive Pope.