# Preet Chandi

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Greenland Starts The New Year With Visits From Silent Masked Visitors

The new year tradition of Mitaarfik in Greenland features a bunch of people in masks hanging out in your house without saying a word. Plus: Today in 2022, Preet Chandi became the first woman of color to successfully make a solo expedition to the South Pole. Mitaartut – The silent masked performan…

S4 E58 - World Ski News, Destination Big White BC, Where is Best to Ski Right Now and Gear Buyers Guide

Drop us a message with any questions you may have :) In this weeks episode brought to you in association with SkiWeekends.com Dom and Rob discuss:SKI NEWS FROM AROUND THE WORLD Polar Exploration: Preet Chandi attempts a solo ski to the North Pole, aiming to inspire resilience and set records. Alpi…

Polar Preet, 'Swell' poetry, Ballet body-shaming

The Royal Ballet School (RBS) has reached a financial settlement with former student Ellen Elphick who said the body-shaming she experienced while at the elite institution has left her with lifelong psychological damage. The London-based school accepts no liability for the former dancer’s case and …

Episode 2: Preet Chandi

Preet Chandi, known to many as Polar Preet, is a British physiotherapist and retired Army officer who has quietly rewritten the record books. In January 2023, she completed the longest solo unsupported one-way polar ski journey ever recorded, breaking not one but two Guinness World Records in the p…

Captain Preet Chandi MBE – Breaking Boundaries: World Record-Breaking Polar Explorer Inspiring the Next Generation

Captain Preet Chandi MBE is a world record breaking explorer, former British Army officer, and physiotherapist. She served in the Royal Army Medical Corps for 16 years before embarking on groundbreaking polar expeditions. In 2022, Preet became the ninth woman in history to ski solo to the South Po…

Preet Chandi on Polar Exploration

Abhay shares a chat with pioneering polar explorer Preet Chandi.  Born and raised in Derby in England, Preet is a British Army officer, a physiotherapist, and a record‑breaking adventure athlete who became the first woman of color to complete a solo expedition to the South Pole. She has since gone …

Antarctica and the Heroic Age of Exploration with Henrietta Hammant and Max Jones

What really happened in the race to the South Pole? Did Captain Oates really say "I'm going outside, I may be some time?" Were the British Heroic Age explorers like Robert Scott and Ernest Shackleton “brave but foolish,” or has history simplified a far more complex story? And how are modern explore…

Season 2, Episode 1 - The Price of Polar Persistence

Join us for our season 2 premiere! In 2021 British medical officer Preet Chandi completes her first expedition in Antarctica, traveling 700 miles across the landmass to reach the South Pole. Sources for this story: Episode of Women Who Travel podcast titled “A solo Skiing Expedition Across Antarct…

#59 - Preet Chandi: Polar Explorer On Building A Resilient Mind

Preet Chandi is a four-time Guinness World Record breaker, British Army veteran and polar explorer. She has skied to the South Pole alone three times, sometimes for as long as 70 days carrying up to 120kg. In this conversation, we talk about: - What 70 days of complete solitude does to your mind -…

Ep 11: AdventureSmith with Preet Chandi

Georgina talks to Preet Chandi, 'Polar' Preet, about her remarkable solo expeditions to Antarctica, and her encounters with a polar bear in the Arctic, why she seeks adventure, what she has learned from her adventures and what advice she has for budding adventurers everywhere. AdventureSmith is bro…