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Karl Bushby has been walking for 27 years to become the only person in history to circle the planet entirely on foot. His journey began in 1998 in Chile 🇨🇱 with one rule: no transport of any kind ❌🚗✈️ He crossed the vast landscapes of South America, survived the deadly Darién Gap ⚔️ with its smugglers and wild jungle, and then trekked through Central and North America 🇲🇽🇺🇸 step by step. He even braved the frozen Bering Strait ❄️ with French traveler Dimitri Kieffer, drifting 80 km off course but still making history. In Russia, strict visa rules and brutal Siberian winters dropping to −50°C turned his progress into an exhausting 11-year challenge. Later, when blocked by the Caspian Sea 🌊 with no way around, Karl and Angela Maxwell 🏊‍♂️🏊‍♀️ swam across it in 40 days, becoming the only people ever to achieve such a crossing. After nearly three decades, 27 countries, and 47,000 km through jungles, deserts, mountains and icy wastelands, Karl is now walking across Europe 🇪🇺 and is expected to finally return home 🏠 by 2026

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00:00This man has been walking for 27 years to become the only person in history to walk
00:05around the entire planet with just one rule – no transport of any kind.
00:10Carl Bushby began his journey in 1998 from the southern edge of Chile saying,
00:15I'll return home only on foot.
00:17After two years he had crossed all of South America and faced his first major obstacle,
00:22the Darien Gap, one of the deadliest places on Earth, with its impenetrable jungle, smugglers
00:28and armed clashes between rebels and the military.
00:31As part of a group, Carl spent 50 days avoiding danger and somehow made it out alive.
00:36Panamanian soldiers even held him for 18 days before letting him continue his trek.
00:41It took six years to cross all of Central and North America and reach the Bering Strait,
00:45which separates the two continents.
00:47After waiting for the strait to freeze, he and French traveler Dimitri Kiefer became
00:51one of the first ever to cross it on foot, despite drifting 80 kilometers off course.
00:56Then he faced a rest in Russia and strict visa limits, which forced him to leave the route
01:00every 90 days and return to the exact same spot to continue his journey.
01:05As a result, his trek across Siberia, where temperatures dropped to minus 50, stretched
01:09over 11 long years.
01:11When the world shut down during the pandemic and borders closed, Carl was stuck in Kazakhstan
01:15for four years and hit a dead end – the Caspian Sea.
01:19He couldn't go around it through Russia or Iran, so he made one choice – to swim across.
01:23Using a support boat only for rest and sleep, he and American traveler Angela Maxwell crossed
01:28the Caspian Sea in 30 days, becoming the only people ever to do so.
01:32After nearly three decades, 25 countries, and 47,000 kilometers, Carl is now walking across
01:38Europe and is expected to finally return home by 2026.
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