High in the sky, behind the desk or behind a rifle in the middle of India. An Alpine forest

Wilfred Noyce, a great uncle. Being born in 1917 and plummeted to his death in 1962 4000 ft, above the clouds in Mt Garmo with 23 year old Robin Smith. Wilfred was the eldest son of Sir Frank Noyce. Wilfred was head of the school at Charterhouse and a scholar of King's college, Cambridge, as well as becoming one of Briton's most finest mountaineers under the age of of 20, he also wrote two Welsh mountaineering handbooks. In 1935 at the age thirteen ( already an excellent climber) while climbing Scafell Wilfred was taking a fall at 180 ft a another mountaineer J Edwards saved him with his rope. Wilfred's war service was spent in a ambulance unit, in the Welsh Guards and the king's royal rifle unit in India. He also participated in the climbing of Mt Everest along side with the rest of the crew and his Sherpa Annullu. Wilfred wrote a collection of books such as "The gods are angry" and "South Col".