# Karl Bushby returns to Hull after 28-year walk from Chile

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/karl-bushby-finally-arrives-home-after-walking-28-years-30-countries-and-an-estimated-75-million-steps-the-brit-adventurer-reaches-hull/
- Published: 2026-11-02T11:14:03+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-02T11:24:20+00:00
- Original publisher: Daily Mail (publisher lean: Right)
- Original article: https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-16257935/British-adventurer-Karl-Bushby-home-countries-paratrooper-mother-Hull.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490
- Topics: World

## Key points

- Karl Bushby has completed his 28-year walk home to Hull.
- The expedition covered 30 countries and an estimated 75 million steps.
- He is reuniting with family, including a granddaughter he has never met.

## Summary

Former paratrooper Karl Bushby has returned to Hull after a 28-year journey on foot from the southern tip of South America. His arrival ends the Goliath Expedition and brings him back to a family he left when his son was eight; his granddaughter, now 12, has never met him in person.

Bushby, 57, estimates he has taken 75 million steps across 30 countries, facing war zones, frozen seas, border restrictions, the financial crash and the pandemic. He began walking north from Punta Arenas, Chile, on 1 November 1998, with about £500 and a rule that he could not use transport to advance along his route. He had expected the trip to take 12 years.

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