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Captain Preet Chandi recently returned to the UK following a record-breaking trip to Antarctica.

Captain Preet Chandi recently returned to the UK following a record-breaking trip to Antarctica.

A physiotherapist from Buckinghamshire has battled exhaustion and temperatures as low as minus 30C to make the furthest unsupported solo polar ski…

Captain Preet Chandi, from Derby, battled exhaustion and freezing temperatures to break the record for the longest solo unsupported and unassisted Antarctica expedition.

Captain Preet Chandi covered 922 miles (1,485km) in 70 days and 16 hours on her record-breaking trek.

Following a delayed rendezvous because of weather and polar terrain, Polar Preet has rendezvoused with her pilot and has taken off to head to Union Glacier in Antarctica. British Army officer Captain Preet Chandi – known as Polar Preet – is expected to spend some time recovering at Union Glacier, the Antarctica base camp, before leaving the continent.

Harpreet Chandi has so far travelled 868 miles across Antarctica in temperatures as cold as -50C

Preet Chandi, known as Polar Preet, travels 868 miles (1,397 km) across Antarctica alone.

The 33-year-old Army physiotherapist is battling temperatures as low as minus 50c.

British Army officer Captain Preet Chandi has made it to the last degree, which means she is just under 60 nautical miles from the South Pole. Capt Chandi, also known as Polar Preet, has completed day 51, (January 5th), of her 1,100-mile solo trek – a challenge that will see her become the first woman to cross the continent alone with nothing but a 120kg pulk (a sledge used to carry equipment across the snow).