UK man completes 28-year journey around the world and returns home
Karl Bushby began a world journey in southern Chile in 1998 at age 29 and walked nearly 50,000 kilometers across four continents, arriving home in Hull, England after 28 years.
- Bushby started his walk from southern Chile in 1998.
- Karl Bushby completed a journey of nearly 50,000 kilometers.
- Karl Bushby is due to arrive home in Hull following a walk from South America.
- Bushby set two rules for his journey: no means of transport and walking home.
- Hull Mayor Maria Coward praised Karl Bushby's achievement.
- Bushby spent eighteen days in prison after being stopped by Panamanian services.
- Karl Bushby originally expected the journey to take about 10 years.
- Karl Bushby, a former British army paratrooper, was 57 years old.
- Bushby traveled through South, Central, and North America, crossed the Bering Strait, and traveled through Central Asia and Europe.
- He traveled across four continents and through thirty countries.
- The journey was interrupted by the financial crisis of 2008.
- The German filmmaker Werner Herzog is making a documentary about his trip.
- The Russian government imposed a five-year entry ban on Bushby in 2012.
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