The LongWalk Home

Karl Bushby left Chile in 1998 with two rules: no transport to advance, and no going home until he arrived on foot.

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01

The Story

One rule, kept for nearly three decades.

The plan never changed: start at the bottom of Chile, walk home to England. No transport to advance. Not when a border closed, not when winter came, not when the route ran out of land. Nearly three decades later, the line is still unbroken, and the man who left in 1998 is almost home.

Open desert route at dusk, used as a temporary expedition image placeholder
Chile 1998 England 2026

No transportto advance

The rule, set in 1998. It has held through everything since.

02

Ten Thousand Mornings

Twenty-eight years of putting one foot down, then the other. Most of the years are left bare; the walk does not summarize. The marked ones are where the land ran out, or the world stopped.

  1. 1998Chile
  2. 1999
  3. 2000
  4. 2001
  5. 2002
  6. 2003
  7. 2004
  8. 2005
  9. 2006
  10. 2007
  11. 2008
  12. 2009
  13. 2010
  14. 2011
  15. 2012
  16. 2013
  17. 2014
  18. 2015
  19. 2016
  20. 2017
  21. 2018
  22. 2019
  23. 2020
  24. 2021
  25. 2022
  26. 2023
  27. 2024
  28. 2025
  29. 2026England
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The Journey

Departure
Punta Arenas, Chile. 1 November 1998
The rule
No transport to advance
The distance
Around the Earth, then half again
Countries
Twenty-five, give or take
The crossings
Darién jungle. Bering ice. Caspian water
Days on foot
Ten thousand, and counting
The return
Hull, England, on foot
Still ahead
The English Channel
04

The Work

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