Walking is something most folks take for granted. Some people, though, carry it to extremes, 'extremes' as in 'the ends of the Earth.'
Levison Wood, a British citizen, regularly sets himself goals too formidable for most of us to consider, let alone undertake. A man of gumption and fortitude, he has walked the length of the
Nile, climbed the
Himalayas, and hiked the
Americas.
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| Levison Wood |
Wood served as an officer in the
British Parachute Regiment in
Afghanistan in 2008 fighting against the
Taliban (which in
Pashto means 'students'). In his 2015 book,
Walking the Nile, Wood details his stroll from a spring located in the forests of Rwanda beneath a sign reading "This is the furthest source of the Nile river" to the Mediterranean Sea.
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| Buzz Aldrin |
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| Hillary & Norgay |
As a testament to the human spirit, such an achievement ranks along with
Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay in their reaching the pinnacle of Everest, though it might not be in quite the same league as
Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walking on the moon. Still, how many of us will ever do anything on this scale?
