{"id":3728,"date":"2026-11-03T13:03:58","date_gmt":"2026-11-03T08:03:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=3728"},"modified":"2026-11-03T13:03:58","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T08:03:58","slug":"uk-adventurer-returns-home-after-28-year-trek-around-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=3728","title":{"rendered":"UK adventurer returns home after 28-year trek around the world"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A British adventurer who has been \u200bwalking around the world for almost three decades is due to finish his trek on \u200cMonday, ending a 31,000-mile journey at the house where he grew up.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Karl Bushby has hacked through jungles in Central America, crossed the ice between Alaska and Russia, and last month swam across the English Channel on the final stretch of a voyage made \u200bentirely under his own steam.<\/p>\n

Hundreds of cheering supporters greeted the 57-year-old in the square of his home \u200bcity of Hull on Monday morning.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter 28 years, you just couldn\u2019t ask for more than \u2060this,\u201d he told the crowd, before pushing on with his few possessions in a trolley, a spare tyre \u200bwhich will now never be needed slung on top.<\/p>\n

\u201cI guess I\u2019ll be seeing you around,\u201d he added. He then \u200bheaded for his family home where his mother, his 36-year-old son and a 12-year-old granddaughter were waiting.<\/p>\n

Bushby served in the British Army\u2019s Parachute Regiment in his twenties.<\/p>\n

After the breakdown of his marriage, he drew a line on a world map and set \u200boff, inspired by his father, who had wondered if it was possible to walk from London to New \u200bYork.<\/p>\n

Carrying a tent, a few hundred dollars and a cheap plastic camera, he started in Chile and headed north through the \u200cAmericas, crossing \u2060from Alaska to Russia, Mongolia and China, and back through Europe after swimming the Caspian Sea.<\/p>\n

\u201cSometimes the monotony is incredible. You\u2019re in deserts, and the landscape doesn\u2019t change for days to weeks. That can get a little mind-bending. The same with the Arctic,\u201d he told Reuters last year<\/a>.<\/p>\n

He originally expected to spend about 10 years on the road \u200bbut he hadn\u2019t anticipated \u200bthe obstacles he\u2019d face, amongst \u2060them a brief imprisonment in Panama, being held at gunpoint in Mexico and detention by Russian authorities for crossing the border illegally, not to mention delays from the \u200b2008 financial crisis and the COVID pandemic.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is what an odyssey in the \u200b21st century looks \u2060like,\u201d he told the Telegraph<\/em> newspaper.<\/p>\n

\u201cHalf of it is literally dealing with these bureaucratic geopolitical problems, not just the environmental hurdles. There are some times where the solution is just to wait.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bushby told the BBC he has only spent \u2060about 15 \u200bof the 28 years walking, returning to Mexico periodically to sort \u200bout visas, logistics and corporate and media sponsorship deals.<\/p>\n

A feature-length documentary about his journey is in production, and Bushby is planning to embark on \u200ba speaking tour around England in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A British adventurer who has been \u200bwalking around the world for almost three decades is due to finish his trek on \u200cMonday, ending a 31,000-mile journey at the house where he grew up. Karl Bushby has hacked through jungles in Central America, crossed the ice between Alaska and Russia, and last month swam across the English Channel on the final stretch of a voyage made \u200bentirely under his own steam. Hundreds of cheering supporters greeted the 57-year-old in the square of his home \u200bcity of Hull on Monday morning. \u201cAfter…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"gutentor_comment":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3728\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}