Karl Bushby completes 28-year, 31,000-mile walk around the world and returns to his mother's house

Karl Bushby, a 57-year-old former British paratrooper, returned to his mother's house in Hull, England, on November 2, 2026, completing a 31,000-mile walk across four continents and 30 countries that began in Punta Arenas, Chile, on November 1, 1998. He refused to use any transport to move forward, crossing the frozen Bering Strait on foot and swimming the Caspian Sea and the English Channel.