Richard Profit

Richard (Rich) Profit (born 1974) is an English mountaineer, sailor, a former British Army officer and polar adventurer. In 2007 he took part in the Polar Race with the mother and son pair Janice Meek and Daniel Byles, successfully walking and skiing 350 nautical miles from Resolute, Nunavut to the Magnetic North Pole in 20 days and 5 hours [1], helping to set two Guinness World Records. He is married with two sons.

Profit was born in Cheshire, England, and after living for a short while in the North West his family moved to Johannesburg, South Africa. He returned to England in 1978 and the family settled in Wokingham, Berkshire where he attended St Paul's Primary School, and The Forest School (Winnersh). In 1985 the family moved to the Midlands, England, and he attended Oakham School, where he was actively involved in the Combined Cadet Force and the Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme (attaining Gold), and he was awarded School Colours for full bore shooting.

After school he took a gap year and travelled extensively through East and Southern Africa, undertaking safaris in the Okavango Delta in Botswana, Lake Malawi, Tanzania and climbed Mt Kilimanjaro (5895m). He completed his formal education by reading Applied Biology and Management Studies at the University of Leeds from 1993 - 1996, where he attained a 2(i)Hons.

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