 On one of these visits he took a young Tibetan into his personal employ in order to have someone with whom to practise speaking Tibetan.He also travelled in the small Himalayan state of Sikkim, and on one such visit he met Sir Basil Gould, who was then the British Representative for Tibet.Inspired to work in Tibet, in 1946 after he left the Army he sat the entrance exams for the Indian Civil Service.