Overview
- Bushby completed his journey and returned to his hometown of Hull on Monday, where hundreds greeted him and he reunited with his mother, his son and a granddaughter he had never met before.
- The expedition began on 1 November 1998 in Punta Arenas, Chile, and covered about 50,000 kilometres on foot across roughly 29 countries before finishing in November 2026.
- He kept two personal rules throughout the trip: use no motorised transport and only return home after completing the route, carrying his belongings in a small two-wheeled cart nicknamed "The Beast".
- Long pauses changed the timeline: visa refusals by Russian authorities after his frozen Bering Strait crossing, the loss of investors during the 2008 financial crisis and COVID-19 restrictions together cost him roughly 14 years of progress.
- The final leg included hazardous water crossings over the years and a special-permit swim of the English Channel in early October 2026 to reach England, and his return drew wide media attention as a story of endurance and legal and political hurdles.