The man who walked the world

Karl Bushby, 56, a British ex-paratrooper who left the tip of South
America in 1998 to walk around the world without using motorised
transport, is in Europe on the final leg of his Goliath Expedition

ROUTE AROUND WORLD

NOTE: It is difficult to track Bushby as
he has no official website and makes
infrequent social media posts

SOUTH
AMERICA

U.S.

CANADA

GREENLAND

ASIA

CHINA

RUSSIA

AFRICA

EUROPE

START
Nov 1, 1998:
Punta Arenas, Chile

2001: Takes
two months
to navigate
dangerous
Darién Gap

Mar 2006: Walks
for two weeks
across frozen
Bering Strait

Oct 2024:
Swims across Caspian
Sea in 31 days

Nov 15, 2025:
Reaches Budapest,
Hungary

EXPECTED FINISH
Sep-Oct 2026:
Hull, UK

Bushby, seen here in Baku,
Azerbaijan in 2024

Cart: Pushes it along
with him – holds tent
and belongings

Journey
distance:
58,000km
(36,000
miles)

DID YOU KNOW?
When Bushby set off,
smartphones, social
media and Google
Maps hadn’t been
invented, and singer
Billie Eilish wasn’t born

Bill Clinton was U.S.
president, Boris Yeltsin
was president of Russia
and Tony Blair was
British prime minister

Adventure was meant
to take 12 years but will
have lasted 28

Sources: Reuters, BBC, On The Go Solo, ExplorersWeb
Picture: © Karl Bushby
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