ADVENTURER David Hempleman-Adams is waiting anxiously by the phone for more news of his daughter.

Last Wednesday, Alicia, 15, set off on an adventure of her own.

Mr Hempleman-Adams last spoke to his daughter on Friday he has had no contact since.

The schoolgirl hopes to become the youngest person ever to travel to the North Pole.

The island around one-and-a-half times bigger than Germany is fraught with danger.

Alicia currently studying for her GCSEs has taken on a mammoth task.

She is pulling a 60lb sledge 200 miles across glacial ice during what Inuits call the Season of the Bear.

The polar bears feared by the local population are highly territorial and will be hungry after waking from hibernation.