Year 4: Full Lesson Plans - Manual / Resource - Page 10
All About
Preet Chandi
Preet Chandi: Adventure taker, record breaker!
Preet Chandi has completed big challenges her whole life as
an explorer and a British Army officer.
She holds the Guinness World Record for the longest solo
unsupported one-way polar ski journey, ever. She also
holds the title of the first Asian woman to complete a solo
expedition to the South Pole.
Childhood days
Preet’s adventures began when she was a child. Born in 1989 in Derby, she was raised by her grandfather
Baba Ji. He encouraged her to aim high and do new things and was a big inspiration.
Preet loved tennis and spent time at a tennis academy as a child. She then started ultramarathon running.
