Preet Chandi had a remarkable start to the year. Just three days into 2022 she stood triumphantly at one of the most isolated and unvisited points on the planet, exhausted but elated, smiling at the falling snow; while reflecting on the fact she’d just completed an incredible 700-mile solo expedition to the South Pole.
By doing so she became the first woman of colour to complete a solo trek in Antarctica, and the third fastest female solo-skier to ever make the journey (reaching the endpoint in just 40 days, seven hours and three minutes).