Minchin added: “Turns out we were right to stop. We both have frostbite and are being looked after incredibly well looked after. At the moment we remain in good spirits.”<\/p>\n
She posted a video in which she and Anderson, 61, could be seen with her fingertips bandaged up.<\/p>\n
March average temperatures in the Northwestern Territories range from -13C to -23C (8.6 to -9.4F) – but the region was particularly cold on Friday, dropping to -30C in places.<\/p>\n
Wind chills were as cold as -36C, which can cause frostbite to set in in as little as 10 minutes. Extremities such as fingers and toes are particularly vulnerable.<\/p>\n
Initial signs of frostbite can include numbness, pain, and skin appearing red or pale, according to the NHS.<\/p>\n
However under prolonged exposure, symptoms can get worse to include:<\/p>\n
hard, frozen skin that can be white, blue or blotchy<\/p>\n
swelling and loss of feeling in the affected area<\/p>\n
blisters filled with blood or clear\/milky fluid<\/p>\n
the skin turning black and hard as it starts to die (which may be harder to detect on black or brown skin)<\/p>\n
Fellow presenters offered words of support after Minchin revealed her brush with the freezing cold.<\/p>\n
“Big hugs,” wrote Good Morning Britain’s Susanna Reid, while former Blue Peter host Helen Skelton said: “What an achievement so far.”<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Morning Live’s Gaby Roslin commented: “Oh my word. Please take good care of yourself.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Minchin added: “Turns out we were right to stop. We both have frostbite and are being looked after…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":487566,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-487565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=487565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487565\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/487566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}