British Round-the-World Walker Nears Finish After 28 Years and 50,000km, But One Last Hurdle Remains
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After 28 years and 50,000km, British round-the-world walker is on the final leg - but there's one last hurdle
Karl Bushby has been walking around the world for 28 years - and he's now ready to hang up his boots. He tells Sky's Ali Bunkall, "I will have to find another hobby", once he's swam across the English Channel to get back home.
"We thought we had permission to swim" to the UK, "but not really," he explained to AFP Karl Bushby, a 57-year-old former British army paratrooper, as he continued his walk to Cape Blanc Nez (Pas-de-Calais), off the cliffs of the English coast, where he is expected to arrive this weekend. The man was initially hoping to walk through a tunnel corridor under the Channel of La Mancha, but he did not receive authorization, he said. That's why he dec…
After 28 years and 50,000 kilometres of hiking from South America around the world, a British adventurer faces his last challenge, the crossing of the English Channel. He is therefore "a bit in panic".
After travelling nearly 50,000 kilometres for 28 years, without ever using any means of transport, Karl Bushby arrived in the Pas-de-Calais, opposite England. But when he crossed
The British Karl Bushby is close to the goal of his world tour on foot. For the last stage from France to Great Britain, however, the 57-year-old still lacks permission for the planned crossing of the English Channel – if necessary he wants to swim.
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