Karl Bushby Completes 28‑Year Walk Around the World

Overview

• Bushby completed his walk and was publicly welcomed in Hull on Monday after a route that began in southern Chile in 1998 and covered about 50,000 kilometres through 29 countries.
• He kept two self‑imposed rules throughout the project: use no transport and do not return home until the journey was finished.
• The expedition included key feats such as crossing the Bering Strait between Alaska and Russia and swimming the English Channel into the UK in early October.
• Werner Herzog and a film crew accompanied Bushby’s final stage and the production company that backed the film provided financial and logistical support for roughly 16 years.
• Long pauses — which Bushby says added up to about 14 years — were caused mainly by Russian visa refusals, the 2008 financial crisis and the Covid‑19 pandemic, and he now faces practical and emotional challenges reintegrating with family and civilian life.