Lying in the dust, his scooter tipped to one side next to him, Levison Wood didn’t need a medic to tell him his left leg was broken – the bone protruding from his skin at an unnatural angle was more than enough.
“I was on holiday in Greece and got whacked off my bike by a taxi which turned out of a lane – the driver hadn’t looked so I swerved to avoid them,” recalls the 40-year-old explorer, who found fame in 2015 with his Channel 4 documentary, Walking the Nile.
“It was quite a bad break which needed surgery, so now my left leg has quite a lot of metal inside it,” he adds of the damage to his ankle and tibia. But in the moment, Levison’s response to the incident was not one many would have while in pain. “I lay there and burst out laughing,” he says.
