BBC presenter Louise Minchin has returned to Morning Live after taking a short break after a "frightening" experience. During the latest episode she explained to hosts Helen Skelton and Gethin Jones that she had faced a fair bit of drama over the last few weeks. Louise set off for the "adventure of a lifetime" where she took part in a bike race in the Arctic Circle which consisted of a 300 mile ride in three days in temperatures as low as -30C.

Louise had been raising money for the Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme, but when one occasion saw temperatures dip to -40C, Louise was made to stop the race after discovering she had developed frostbite which had affected her fingers and toes. The TV star was back on screen with a bandage on her humb while she was still recovering from the incident.

She told the hosts: "Oh, thank you for having me back. It's lovely to be back at work actually, and trying to get back to a bit of normality. After, I think we did like 150 kilometres, I'm cycling with a friend, 13 hours in very extreme environments. Very beautiful but actually very frightening being that cold."

She added: "She said to me that her hands were numb and I thought: 'Okay, right. This is a bad sign. You know, it's going to get dark. It's going to get worse. I think we need to call it. I think we need to stop the race.'

"So quite difficult to get out the emergency beacon, actually, and press the button when your hands are obviously very cold. We got picked up eventually by part of the team, got in the car, and I was shivering a lot."

Louise explained that her friend hadn't been speaking a lot and then when she took off her glove and saw her hands and discovered that her thumb didn't look as it should. She added: "Immediately, everybody in the car, we realised that I had frostbite and it wasn't just on my thumb. It was fingers as well and all of my toes, except for one."

She added: "I don't know at this point when I will be fully recovered, and it's a journey that I'm on with my family and all of you and everybody else and just kind of have to sit back, fingers crossed, rest more than I would normally, and hopefully it will be okay."

However, Louise said last week her doctors has said that she may never get the feeling back in the tips of her fingers, but she said that it's back which has been "really good".

Louise continued: "My thumb is not so good and my toes are not so good. So it's a journey and it's a bit like a rollercoaster. You don't quite know what the highs and the lows [are]."

She thanked everyone for their support as well and said everyone has "been amazing".