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Man Walking The World For 27 Years Reveals The Two Places That Terrified Him Most
A man who has trekked around the world on foot for an incredible 27 years has thought back on some of the most terrifying locations he has encountered and why.
Karl Bushby left Punta Arenas, Chile, at the age of 29, to make the arduous trek back to the UK on foot without the use of any kind of transportation.
Bushby, who is now 56, is almost back in England, but he might need to swim from France across the English Channel.
He told CBS News of his upcoming hurdle: “Swimming sucks, dude. It just sucks. I’m not a swimmer. I don’t like it.”
Bushby acknowledged that he feels “uncomfortable” now that he is nearing the end of his career and likened it to being “like anyone who’s had a lifetime career when it’s time to retire.”
In another interview, Bushby shared some of his most terrifying travel experiences over the previous 27 years with CBS’s Ramy Inocencio.
When the daring adventurer crossed the Darién Gap early in 2000, it was one of the two most terrifying events that immediately came to memory. This is a roadless area of rainforest on the Colombian-Panama border.
Bushby recalled being ‘in the middle of a war zone’, adding to Inocencio, “There was a whole layer above that that was cartels and drug plantations, and then really, really tough jungle.”
Additionally, he was the first British person to cross the Bering Strait, which separates the Pacific and Arctic oceans.
Bushby claimed to have run into a polar bear while crossing it.
“You’re in a very serious world that will kill you in 20 minutes if you mess up,” he reflected.
Bushby talked about how challenging the trip has been over the past 27 years in a different interview.
Speaking on BBC Radio Humberside in June, he shared, “We’ve run into a lot of complications with visa problems, financial crises, the pandemic: we’ve had it all.”
“It’s been extremely difficult but we’ve always stuck to our guns and never been willing to compromise on the route.”
Bushby had to swim across the Caspian Sea, becoming the first person to do so, because he was not allowed to pass through Iran or Russia.
Kazakhstan, Russia, Turkmenistan, Azerbaijan, and Iran are the five nations that border the more than 143,000-square-mile body of water.
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