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MajorLevison James Wood(born 5 May 1982) is a British Army officer and explorer. He is best known for his extended walking expeditions in Africa, Asia and Central America.

Beginning in December 2013, over the course of nine months he undertook the first ever expedition to walk the entire length of the river Nile from the Nyungwe Forest in Rwanda. The expedition was commissioned as a four-part documentary series for Channel 4 in the UK. He also wrote aSunday Timesbestselling book detailing the expedition,Walking the Nile.

In 2015, he walked the length of the Himalayas, from Afghanistan in the west to Bhutan in the east. A year later he walked from the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico, where the early Spanish conquistadors landed, to Colombia, a journey of 1,800 miles (2,900 km) following the spine of Central America, crossing the infamous Darién Gap. His bookWalking the Americasbecame a bestseller in the UK and USA.