Man returns home after 28-yr journey walking around the world

A British adventurer, Karl Bushby, has returned to his childhood home in Hull, northern England, after completing a 28-year walking journey around the world that covered approximately 50,000 kilometres.

Bushby, 57, was welcomed by his mother, Angela, outside her terraced house on Monday, November 2, 2026, beneath a banner reading “Welcome Home Son”.

Hundreds of supporters had gathered in the city centre to celebrate his return before he completed the final stretch of his journey to his mother’s home.

“Sorry to keep you waiting,” he joked to the cheering crowd. “Is that it, is it done?”

Bushby began the expedition, known as the Goliath Expedition, in November 1998 in Punta ...