The Long Way Home
Two rules · 50,000 km

Walk home the long way.

On 1 November 1998 Karl Bushby left Punta Arenas, Chile, to walk home to Hull. He landed at Dover on 5 October 2026. Now it’s your turn: same route, same rules — nothing with an engine on the route, and no going home until it’s done. How many years will it take you?

Choose your rules

Expedition length

See the real route first

🦵 Manage your body

Legs, spirit, boots and food. Push the pace and you'll get home sooner — if your knees survive.

🛂 Beat the paperwork

90-day visas, a Russian ban, a Panamanian cell, Schengen's 90/180 rule. Real obstacles from Karl's walk.

🧊 Ice, jungle, sea

Cut through the Darién Gap, hop moving floes across the Bering Strait, swim the Caspian and the Channel.

Chapter 1 of 18

Chapter

    Camp

    Pace:
    Expedition journal
      On the road

      Event

      Crossing

      Expedition card

      Title

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