![]() The point, he said, isn’t to court danger, but rather to learn the truth about what’s happening in these corners of the world first-hand. ![]() Wood, who has co-founded a company that brings people to remote and dangerous places, says that even in Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq and Somalia there are spots that are safe to visit. ![]() He’s hitchhiked from England to India and back, crossing conflict zones in Iraq and Afghanistan driven ambulances from London to Malawi for a charity walked across Madagascar protected George Clooney in South Sudan fought Taliban insurgents as an officer in the British Parachute Regiment in Afghanistan and even helped a pop star perform an outdoor concert in the coldest inhabited place on Earth. Wood has made a name for himself by finding novel ways to experience inaccessible and dangerous places. “I didn’t want to just get in a boat and raft by them.” “The journey was about the people who live along the riverbanks,” he said. Instead the 32-year-old British explorer and photojournalist recently made one of the last epic journeys left on Earth: walking nearly 4,000 miles alongside the crocodile-infested Nile River. Most people see a river and want to glide down it in a boat. ![]()
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