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British adventurer Karl Bushby returned to his family home in Hull on Monday, completing a 28-year journey around the world, Anadolu Agency reported.
The 57-year-old former British paratrooper set off from Punta Arenas, at the southern tip of Chile, in 1998. His Goliath Expedition challenge was to make his way back to England without using transportation to move forward on the journey.
Bushby covered more than 50,000 kilometres (31,000 miles) across four continents and around 30 countries. He travelled north through the Americas, crossed the frozen Bering Strait from Alaska into Russia, then continued across Asia and Europe.
The expedition took much longer than planned as he encountered visa and border restrictions, extreme weather, financial difficulties and delays caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. One of its most challenging stages was his 2006 crossing of the Bering Strait, where he navigated shifting sea ice between Alaska and Russia.
Decades later, geopolitical restrictions blocked overland routes, so Bushby swam across the Caspian Sea to continue west. He reached Britain in October after swimming across the English Channel, then walked the final roughly 400 kilometres (250 miles) to Hull.
His arrival at his mother’s home ended an expedition that began when he was 29 and occupied nearly half his life.
