Michael Thexton

It was, it became his passion.

He was in the Boy Scouts and they did, they went camping and then they did small rock climbing and gradually it became the thing that he really wanted to do.

So he went, when he stopped coming on family holidays, he would be off camping in Scotland or camping in the Alps in France or Switzerland.

and climbing bigger and bigger mountains.

And that was his passion.

No, it was... I wanted to be, obviously.

You know, people want to be what their heroes are.

And so I used to... I tried rock climbing when I was at...

Peter would go on to become a doctor.

Most doctors sort of move on from that quite quickly and start taking longer jobs.

But he didn't.

He just carried on doing these six-month junior doctor jobs.

I think when he went on his last expedition, he was just coming to the point where he thought, I have to grow up a bit now.

I have to get serious about this.

And I went off and studied as a junior accountant and did all my exams.

And during that time, accountants get a very bad rap that they're all very dull and so on.

I guess I thought that, well, Peter was out there doing interesting things and I could enjoy his traveller's tales and his slideshows.

And that was fine.

You know, I didn't mind that I was just sort of, you know, going to the office and doing my exam.

That was, I guess that was three years from 1980 to 1983 while I was studying and doing exams.