London: Captain Harpreet Chandi, the first female Sikh of the British Army, has left for a visit to the South Pole. Chandi is popularly known as ‘Polar Preet’. She will travel 700 miles to the South Pole, battling temperatures of minus 50 degrees Celsius and icy winds of 60 mph.
Captain Chandy is serving in the Medical Regiment of the British Army in North East England. Their task is to train the doctors to join the army. On his online blog, Captain Harpreet Chandi wrote that the journey would take about 45-47 days. In the meantime, she plans to upload a live tracking map for people to follow her daily Voice blog.
A 32-year-old Sikh military officer of the British Army has left for a visit to the South Pole. She is the first woman of Indian origin to go on this solo adventure. On Sunday, she and a physiotherapist traveled from London to Chile.
Captain Chandy is serving in the Medical Regiment of the British Army in North East England. Their task is to train the doctors to join the army. On his online blog, Captain Harpreet Chandi wrote that the journey would take about 45-47 days. In the meantime, she plans to upload a live tracking map for people to follow her daily Voice blog. Chandi wrote, ‘I want to take more and more people with me on this journey, so I hope you enjoy the journey by following.’
Captain Chandy said, ‘Antarctica (South Pole) is the coldest, highest, driest and windiest continent on Earth. No one lives there permanently. When I first started planning to go there, I didn’t know much about the continent. That’s what inspired me to go there.
