Hugh Thomson FRGS is a British travel writer, film maker and explorer. His The Green Road Into Trees: A Walk Through England won the 2014 Wainwright Prize for nature and travel writing. He was appointed as a Royal Literary Fund fellow at Oxford Brookes University in 2012–2014. He has led research expeditions in Peru exploring Inca settlements, including the discovery of in 2002 and a 2003 study of Llaqtapata. He has also led filming expeditions to Mount Kilimanjaro, Bhutan, Afghanistan and Mexico.