After 28 years, British adventurer, Karl Bushby, arrived back home on Monday after a 50,000-kilometre (31,000-mile) trek from Chile across four continents without using any transport to progress.\n<\/p>\n
Bushby, who set off on his odyssey from South America in 1998, had two golden rules for his journey \u2014 avoid all forms of transport to advance and not return until he completed his challenge.\n<\/p>\n
He was met Monday in the centre of Hull, northeast England, by a crowd of up to 1,000 cheering people, and thanked everyone for all the support he had met along the way.\n<\/p>\n
\u201cI didn\u2019t do this alone,\u201d he said, adding it was a \u201cglobal effort\u201d after winning praise from Hull Mayor Maria Coward.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou wouldn\u2019t believe just how many people have been involved in this, to get us around the kinds of obstacles that we face. We\u2019ve faced down governments, we\u2019ve faced down some of the hardest challenges.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
The route back to his home city has seen him walk the length of the Americas, across the frozen Bering Strait from Alaska to Russia and then through parts of Central Asia and Europe covering jungles, mountains, and deserts.\n<\/p>\n
He had already been applauded Sunday as he crossed the iconic Humber Bridge near Hull in thick mist, ahead of his final push into the city centre and then on to his mother\u2019s home.<\/p>\n
The 57-year-old former paratrooper, who pushed his belongings with him on a metal-framed cart, was met by a civic welcome on Monday.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo many people have followed Karl on his epic journey. We have all felt inspired by his spirit, tenacity and dogged determination,\u201d Coward said earlier, adding the city took \u201cpride in his incredible achievement\u201d.\n<\/p>\n
Bushby was to be reunited late Monday with his mother Angela, his 36-year-old son Adam and a 12-year-old granddaughter he has never met.\n<\/p>\n
He began his adventure when he was 29 after his marriage broke down and his wife returned to Northern Ireland with their son.\n<\/p>\n
He was forced to pause the journey several times, including when Moscow refused him a visa. The 2008 financial crisis and then the Covid-19 pandemic proved to be other hold-ups.\n<\/p>\n
At those times, he stepped away from the journey, living notably at a base in Mexico; then once the situation had been resolved, he would resume from the exact spot where he had left off.\n<\/p>\n
He swam across the Channel in early October to reach the UK again.<\/p>\n
\u201cFeels good to have UK soil under my feet after all these years,\u201d he said later in a statement, adding his journey \u201chadn\u2019t been easy\u201d.\n<\/p>\n
\u201cAll of us can accomplish more than we will ever imagine,\u201d he added.\n<\/p>\n
Legendary German filmmaker Werner Herzog and a film crew are accompanying Bushby on his homecoming.\n<\/p>\n
Herzog is making a feature-length documentary about the journey entitled \u201cWalk of Life\u201d.\n<\/p>\n
The production company behind the film has been supporting Bushby\u2019s progress for the past 16 years, providing financial and logistical assistance.\n<\/p>\n
In an interview with AFP from northern France in September, Bushby voiced some apprehension about returning to a more normal life back in Britain.\n<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve got to try and get established in the grown-up world again,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
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