Dale Henderson and his teenage mates would trek all the way to the snow line while growing up on New Zealand’s rugged South Island, but it wasn’t enough.

The Pilbara Minerals boss wanted to go even higher. He learned to mountain climb, a passion that eventually took him to the Himalayas where he avoided the tourist traps of Everest and climbed peaks up to 7000 metres in what he calls the back blocks of Nepal.