00:00This man has been walking for 27 years to become the only person in history to walk around the
00:05entire planet with just one rule, no transport of any kind. Carl Bushby began his journey in 1998
00:13from the southern edge of Chile saying, I'll return home only on foot. After two years he
00:18had crossed all of South America and faced his first major obstacle, the Darien Gap, one of the
00:23deadliest places on earth, with its impenetrable jungle, smugglers, and armed clashes between
00:29rebels and the military. As part of a group, Carl spent 50 days avoiding danger and somehow made it
00:35out alive. Panamanian soldiers even held him for 18 days before letting him continue his trek. It
00:40took six years to cross all of Central and North America and reach the Bering Strait, which separates
00:46the two continents. After waiting for the Strait to freeze, he and French traveler Dimitri Kiefer
00:50became one of the first ever to cross it on foot, despite drifting 80 kilometers off course.
00:55Then, 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. As a result,
01:05his trek across Siberia, where temperatures dropped to minus 50, stretched over 11 long years.
01:11When the world shut down during the pandemic and borders closed, Carl was stuck in Kazakhstan for
01:16four years and hit a dead end, the Caspian Sea. He couldn't go around it through Russia or Iran,
01:21so he made one choice — to swim across. Using a support boat only for rest and sleep, he and
01:26American traveler Angela Maxwell crossed the Caspian Sea in 30 days, becoming the only people
01:31ever to do so. After nearly three decades, 25 countries, and 47,000 kilometers, Carl is now
01:38walking across Europe and is expected to finally return home by 2026.
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