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Levison Wood 2006.
Levison James Wood was born on 5th May 1982 in Staffordshire. Educated at Painsley Roman Catholic School and the University of Nottingham, he was commissioned from Sandhurst in April 2006 into the Parachute Regiment. After completing tours of Afghanistan, Wood left the army in 2010 to pursue a career in travel, writing and photography.
Beginning in December 2013, he led a nine-month expedition to walk the length of the Nile, a trek of some 4,250 miles. Accompanied by journalists for part of the way and a Channel 4 television crew, the feat was accomplished all bar one stretch, in South Sudan, where a civil war was raging. Such were the conditions on the journey that Matthew Power, one of the American journalists, died of heatstroke. Wood wrote a book, Walking the Nile, which became a Sunday Times bestseller, and the subsequent documentary was Channel 4s most successful factual series of 2015.
In 2015, Wood’s next expedition was a 1,700-mile walk along the Himalayas, from Afghanistan to Bhutan. The now tried and tested formula resulted in another
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