Helene Wood

Helene Wood, Long Haul Operations Manager

Helene graduated from the University of London in Classics and English having first experienced drama school and a period working for a specialist Mediterranean yacht charter company.Donning rucksack on back she then made her way around the world finding herself flung in at the deep end trekking the Inca Trail in Peru, the Abel Tasman and Kepler Tracks in New Zealand, wandering amidst the billabongs of central Australia, exploring the hill tribes of Thailand and the hill stations of Northern India and onto the heights of Kilimanjaro.She has in turn worked for a specialist South American outfit, a well-known upmarket African Safari company and a polar expedition voyage operation.During her five years in Canada she successfully led sales of the country's top adventure company and also got used to braving -40o temperatures!

Since then she has trekked across the Kalimantan rainforest in Borneo with thousands of leeches as cohorts, sailed to Antarctica and kayaked with the whales there, experienced the breathtaking wilderness of Alaska and Patagonia and discovered a love of mountaineering with a successful ascent of Aconcagua in Argentina, the highest mountain outside the Himalayas.Recent expeditions include Mt Blanc, the volcanoes of Ecuador and Island Peak in Nepal on route from Everest Base Camp.She also accompanied her first group to Chile last year, testing her Spanish to the limit!

Helene relocated from London to Yorkshire two years ago bringing her invaluable knowledge of the international travel trade, literary skills, personal contacts and experience of all seven continents to Walks Worldwide.