Twenty-eight years of walking and he still had to swim the last bit because nobody would let him on the ferry.

British adventurer back on UK soil after 28-year round-the-world walk

Karl Bushby, a 57-year-old former British paratrooper, stepped ashore on Shakespeare Beach near Dover on Oct 5 after swimming the English Channel from France with UK and French permission. He set off from Punta Arenas, Chile, in November 1998, vowing to reach his mother's home near Hull without planes, trains, boats or vehicles. The 50,000km route crossed 29 countries, including a Bering Strait crossing from Alaska to Russia, with long pauses for a Moscow visa refusal, the 2008 financial crisis and the pandemic, resuming each time where he stopped. He still must walk to Hull.

Source: British adventurer back on UK soil after 28-year round-the-world walk — Straits Times

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