Karl Bushby ends 28-year trek home to Hull

British adventurer Karl Bushby is ending a 28-year, 50,000-kilometre trek home from Chile to Hull without using transport to advance.

Bushby, 57, began the journey in 1998. His route took him the length of the Americas, across the Bering Strait from Alaska to Russia and through parts of central Asia and Europe, crossing jungles, mountains, deserts and a frozen sea.

People applauded on Sunday as he crossed the Humber Bridge near Hull in thick mist before his final push into the city centre and then to his mother's home.

Bushby, a former paratrooper, pushed his belongings in a metal-framed cart. He told BBC radio he was "absolutely overwhelmed" by the reception.

Hull's mayor, Maria Coward, was due to give him a civic welcome on Monday with members of the public. He was then expected to continue to north Hull to be reunited with his mother Angela, his son Adam and a 12-year-old granddaughter he has never met.

Bushby paused the journey several times, including after Moscow refused him a visa and during delays linked to the 2008 financial crisis and the Covid-19 pandemic. Each time, he later resumed from the same spot.

He reached Britain early last month by swimming across the English Channel from northern France. Friends and family, including his father, greeted him near Dover.

German filmmaker Werner Herzog and a film crew are accompanying Bushby on his homecoming for a feature-length documentary about the journey called "Walk of Life".