Rosie Swale-Pope, 59, was released Monday morning from an Anchorage hospital.

Her current location was not immediately known, and an e-mail sent by The Associated Press to her son, who maintains her Web site, was not immediate answered. However, the Alaska Air National Guard on Monday said they were storing her equipment, and Swale-Pope had contacted them to retrieve the items.

Swale-Pope was rescued from Henry Island by an Alaska National Guard helicopter Sunday evening. She had marine band radios, a GPS device and other modern conveniences, and contacted Alaska State Troopers on Saturday to report that she was treating herself for frostbite. Troopers called the Guard for help Sunday because she still hadn't been able to leave her campsite, Guard spokesman Maj. Mike Haller said.

Haller said conditions on the uninhabited island have been heinous for days, with freezing temperatures, deep snow and blizzard conditions.

The crew of a Pave Hawk helicopter from the 210th Rescue Squadron battled horrific weather en route, but found Swale-Pope easily thanks to all the communications equipment she had with her, Haller said.

''She was in good spirits and, to say the least, glad to have some company,'' Haller said.

Swale-Pope started her quest to walk around the globe, and also raise money for various cancer and orphan charities, more than two years ago after her husband died of cancer.

She left her home in England with nearly no money and few supplies. Her journey has taken her across Europe, through Holland, Germany, Poland and Moscow and along the Trans Siberian Railway route. She flew from Russia to Alaska, where she was essentially walking a large part of the Iditarod trail backward.

''The run is getting very dangerous now,'' Swale-Pope wrote on her Web page before the rescue. ''The temperatures are fluctuating between minus 60 at night to between minus 20 and plus 30 degrees during the day. I am still using all my cold weather equipment which has and continues to keep me so safe.''

She had planned to continue through Canada, Greenland, Iceland, Ireland, Scotland and England before reaching her home in Wales.

She has averaged between 10 and 25 miles a day, depending on how much weight is in her sled.