Sue and Victoria Riches

Sue Riches (right) was born in 1946. Following school and a year in Paris she did a bilingual secretarial course, after which she worked in London for six months as a secretary.

After bringing up three children, she started a catering business in the early Eighties, which she ran for nearly twenty years, then opted for a career change after having breast cancer and a mastectomy, and became a teacher of English as a foreign language. She also completed an Open University degree,

She now lectures about her various travels.

Victoria Riches (left) was born in 1970. She was head girl at her school and was the first girl there to achieve the Duke of Edinburgh’s Gold Award.

She taught in Canada for a year before taking a degree in politics and history at Newcastle University. She then worked as a trainee manager at Marks and Spencer and spent three years as a recruitment consultant.

Following the North Pole expedition with her mother Sue, she retrained as a primary school teacher and spent nine years teaching part time while also running her own company as a public-speaking and life coach and event organiser. She now runs an online educational publishing company.