Preet Chandi

Harpreet Kaur Chandi (born 7 February 1989 in Derby, England) is a British polar explorer known as Preet Chandi or Polar Preet. She served 16 years in the Royal Army Medical Corps, retiring as a captain in October 2024. Between 2021 and 2023, she completed three solo unsupported Antarctic ski expeditions, accumulating four Guinness World Records including the longest solo unsupported one-way polar ski journey by a female (1,485 km in 70 days, 16 hours) and the fastest solo unsupported female ski to the South Pole (1,130 km in 31 days, 13 hours, 19 minutes).