Epic Walk. Inspiring Talk.

Across continents, through extreme landscapes, and against extraordinary odds, Karl Bushby set out to walk home. After 28-years, he made it.
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Epic Walk. Inspiring Talk.

2 Rules – 28 Years.

In 1998, former British paratrooper Karl Bushby walked out of the southern tip of Chile and pointed himself toward home: England. He set two rules: no transport to move forward, and no going home until he arrived on foot.

He never broke either one.

He slipped through the Darién Gap in the middle of a guerrilla war, drifting downriver disguised as floating debris, past crocodiles, before landing in a Panamanian J*il. He dragged his cart through 50-degree desert heat and up the Alaska Highway at -40 degrees. He braved the frozen Bering Strait, leaping between drifting ice floes and plunging into the icy waters, only to be arrested by Russian border troops the moment he stepped ashore.

When Russia banned him, he walked 5,600 km across America to the Russian Embassy’s front door until they let him back in. When war, sanctions and a global pandemic sealed every road through Central Asia, the self-confessed non-swimmer swam 288 km across the Caspian Sea. Then in October 2026 he swam the English Channel to reach his childhood home for the first time in nearly three decades.

Now he’s here, in person, to tell the whole story.

Hear what it really takes to keep going when the plan collapses, the money runs out, and the border stays closed. Hear about the strangers on four continents who fed him, sheltered him and refused to let him quit. And find out how a man who spent half his life walking home feels when he finally arrives.

Whether you’re an adventurer, a dreamer, or someone grinding through a long haul of your own, you’ll walk out of this room seeing your own obstacles differently.

The world isn’t always as intimidating as you might think, and Karl has the stories to prove it.