Levison Wood's life as an explorer
It's an incredible lifestyle. It has its challenges but it is fun.
Levison Wood is a bestselling author, explorer and photographer who has dedicated his life to exploration. At 21 he travelled across Iraq, and at 22 he hitchhiked from England to India.
His most recent exploration, Walking The Himalayas, currently airing on Channel 4, coincides with the release of a book of the same title, and is a follow-up to his first walking adventure, Walking The Nile, which aired this time last year and was also accompanied by a book.
Levison knew at the age of seven that he wanted to be an explorer and he joins us today to talk about his journey to explore the world on foot, how his dad's advice might just have saved his life, how a near death experience nearly canned his latest expedition, what his essential bit of kit is and what he thinks of being a sex symbol!