Levison Wood is a Sunday Times best-selling author and photographer who led expeditions and been sent on assignments in over 100 countries. He has published eight best-selling books and produced six critically acclaimed documentaries which have been seen by millions around the world. He has walked 8000 miles along the Nile, the Himalayas and Central America, circumnavigated the Arabian Peninsula, and trekked across Botswana with a herd of wild Elephants. Levison is an Officer in the British Army having served in the Parachute Regiment for 13 years. Levison is an elected Fellow of both the Royal Geographical Society and the Explorers Club in New York. Levison will help promote the Western Front Way as a walk, and its values of commemoration, education and well being.

‘Passing on the history of the First World War has been done in poetry, and stories, in music and museums, and in plays and films. But here is a new way, to my mind the most beautiful way, most significant way, the creation of a path of peace, The Western Front Way.

An inspired idea, originally proposed in a letter from the Front by one of those who died in that war. It was that No Mans Land, where so many millions had died on all sides, should be transformed into a path of peace, stretching from the Swiss Border all the way to the English Channel, some 1000 km.

We will all be able to see that a landscape so utterly destroyed has recovered, that where there was enmity there is now friendship, and that we can walk there now in peace.’

Oldest son of a Cavalry Officer and born into a military family. In his youth, a counsellor in summer camps in Germany, then counsellor in Baltimore for YMCA day camps.
25 years organizing horseback pack trips with parallel activities for handicapped young adults. Mostrecently, 15 years as a member of a road safety NPO organization and driving instructor.
Arrived in Lorraine/Meuthe et Moselle/Badonviller in 2017. Électeurs in March 2020 at both local and community level and a member of several tourist and local Commissions.
Proud to be an Ambassador of WFW.

Peter Fiennes worked at Time Out for 25 years, where he wrote, edited and oversaw the creation of hundreds of guidebooks, including their award-winning city guides. He is the author of the critically acclaimed ‘Oak and Ash and Thorn: the ancient woods and new forests of Britain’ and ‘Footnotes: a journey round Britain in the company of great writers’. His first book was ’To War with God: the army chaplain who lost his faith’ and told the story of his grandfather, Monty Guilford, who worked as a chaplain on the Western Front. His latest is ‘A Thing of Beauty: Travels in Mythical and Modern Greece’ and will be out in October 2021. 

Peter lives in south London and is captivated by the ambition and vision of the Western Front Way and cannot wait to walk its length.