Levison Wood
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Major Levison James Wood (born 5 May 1982) is a British Army officer and explorer.
He is best known for his extended walking tours in Africa, Asia, and Central America. He started in December 2013 and completed the first ever expedition to walk the entire length of the river Nile in Rwanda's Nyungwe Forest.
The expedition was made in the United Kingdom as part of Channel 4's four-part documentary series. Walking the Nile, He wrote a bestseller book in the Sunday Times describing the expedition. He walked the length of the Himalayas in 2015, from Afghanistan in the west to Bhutan in the east.
He walked from the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico, where the early Spanish conquistadors had landed, to Colombia, a journey of 1,800 miles (2,900 km), via Central America's infamous Darién Gap.
Walking the Americas became a best-selling book in the United Kingdom and the United States. He went from 2017 to the spring of 2018 on two journeys.
From the Black Sea to the Caspian mountains, following the Caucasus mountains through the North Caucasian republics, via Azerbaijan, Georgia, Armenia, and Iran, followed his early hitchhiking journeys as a student. He started his most ambitious challenge to date in September 2017: a complete circumnavigation of the Arabian Peninsula, wandering Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, and the Holy Land to end in Lebanon; a journey totalling 5,000 miles (8,000 km).
He was embedded with Iraqi troops fighting ISIS during his journey, where he saw the liberation of Sharqat and also encountered Palestinian rebels and Hezbollah forces.
He toured Palmyra, which was then under Russian occupation.
He has also taken several other overland trips, including a foot crossing of Madagascar and mountain climbing in Iraq. He chronicles his travels through literature, archives, and photography.
Life
Janice Wood (née Curzon) and Levison Wood Sr. Wood, a teacher, was born in Hartshill, Staffordshire, on May 5th, 1982, and she grew up in nearby Forsbrook. Levison was educated at Painsley Catholic College before obtaining an honors degree at the University of Nottingham. On April 13, 2006, he was commissioned as an officer in the Parachute Regiment, where he spent four years in Afghanistan in Helmand, Kandahar, and Zabul. On October 13, 2008, Wood was promoted to Captain.
He left the army in April 2010, began a career in writing and photography, and has become a best-selling author. He has extensive experience in travel and exploration in more than 100 countries, and was named a Fellow of the Royal Geographic Society in 2011. He has been elected Fellow of the Explorers Club in New York, an Honorary Fellow of CASS Business School, and he holds an honorary doctorate at Staffordshire University.
Wood acts as a patron and ambassador for a variety of charities, including the Tusk Trust, The Glacier Trust, and the ABF The Soldier's Charity. In 2012, he rejoined the army as a reservist Major in the 77th Brigade.