Over the next fifty years, Sir Edmund was to have many more
adventures and important roles. He led expeditions to the
South Pole, travelling on tractors over crevasse-covered
glaciers and deep drifts of snow. He jetboated from the
mouth of the mighty Ganges River, with its fearsome rapids,
to its source in the Himalayas. He was New Zealand’s High
Commissioner to India. But of all the adventures he had, the
one that dominated his life was working among the Sherpas,
high in the Himalayan mountains.