A Brief Biography

Sue Riches and Victoria Riches
In 1997 Victoria and her mother Sue were part of a world record breaking relay expedition as members of the first all women’s expedition to the North Pole. The team skied into the Guinness Book of Records on May 26th 1997, were voted Women of the Year and Sue and Victoria have since written a book about their experiences called ‘Frigid Women’.

Sue Riches
Sue was born in 1946. Following school and a year in Paris, she did a bilingual secretarial course, and worked in London for six months as a very inefficient secretary! In 1967, she married Jeremy, three children followed, Victoria, Philip, and Edward. Sue ran a catering business in the early eighties, doing weddings, 21st’s and business lunches for twenty years. She decided to change her career after breast cancer, completing a TEFL course. She taught English to foreign students at home, two weeks of lessons, gastronomic food and culture. An Open University degree followed which was six years of hard slog. Sue now lectures to a huge variety of people about her various travels, whether they are small groups, big companies or passengers on a cruise ship. She loves travelling, especially on horses or bikes!
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Victoria Riches (Humphries)

Victoria was born in 1970 - she was head girl at her school and the first pupil to achieve the Duke of Edinburgh’s Gold Award. After leaving school, she taught in Canada for a year and then went to Newcastle University to read Politics. This was followed by a short spell as a trainee manager at Marks & Spencer plc and three years as a recruitment consultant for Angela Mortimer plc in London. Following the North Pole expedition, she left London and trained as a Primary school teacher. For nine years Victoria taught part time whilst also running her own company as a public speaking & life coach and event organiser.

She is now married to Jeremy Humphries, a film cameraman, lives near Bath and is Commercial Manager of Teachit, an online educational publishing company. Victoria is still very busy working as a motivational & after dinner speaker whilst continuing to run her personal development training courses. When not working, she spends her time doing anything active whether it is competing in the London Marathon, skiing, gardening or walking her dogs – and not forgetting keeping her young son, Ben, out of mischief!
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