044: Levison Wood | Walked the Entire Nile

The Hard Way w/ Joe De Sena

Spartan Races

Fitness, Alternative Health, Health & Fitness, 792700

4.7 • 870 Ratings

🗓️ 14 July 2015

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Levison Wood just finished walking the full length of the Nile. Walking, that is, when he wasn't running from charging buffalos, elephants and crocs or wading through python infested swamps, or dodging bullets... Yet for this seasoned explorer it was well worth the risk, not only for the exhilaration of being the first, but also for the richness of the experience. Often the biggest obstacle was not escaping the perilous but enduring the mundane. Wood describes how he developed the grit to push through.

Lessons:
1. Manage risk; don't avoid it. No risk no reward.
2. We need much less stuff than we realize. Simplify your life.
3. You're the only one who determines what you're capable of, so persist through the naysayers.

Transcript

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0:00.0	You're listening to Spartan Up Podcast. We're going to interview somebody every week from all over the world and see what they did in their life to become successful, no matter how they define it.
0:12.0	We are here in Sunny Pittsfield Vermont for Spartan Up Podcast. On my right I've got
0:18.4	Dr Colonel Nye. I've got Johnny Waite and I've got several livin.
0:25.0	I could be Levison for this one.
0:28.5	Oh yeah, you want to be several leavenson for this one.
0:30.8	Well, how about this guy?
0:32.4	Does he fly a hill after?
0:34.0	And so we talked to Levison Wood, actually Dell did, right?
0:38.0	He walked the entire Nile, and he had just escaped an alligator, I think, when we got him.
0:44.0	Oh yeah, the stories this guy had are unbelievable.
0:47.0	Yeah.
0:48.0	So you walk the entire length of the Nile.
0:49.0	I'm looking forward to this.
0:50.0	Let's check it out.
0:51.0	Yeah.
0:52.0	Dendritic pattern.
0:53.0	I'm here in London for Spartan Up UK and we've been joined by Explorer Levison Wood.
0:59.3	Lev, thanks so much for coming to chat to us.
1:02.0	You've got an incredible story because you are
1:03.6	literally fresh off the plane.
1:05.4	Last night, straight off a plane. Tell us what you've been up to. Well for the past
1:10.1	nine months I have been walking along the world's longest river Nile through six different countries,
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