Wire reporting: (AP, via ClickOrlando)

British adventurer Karl Bushby arrived in Hull, northern England, on Monday at the end of a 28-year walk that began in southern Chile in 1998^1,2,4.

Outlets put the distance at about 31,000 miles (50,000 kilometers) across four continents^1,2. The BBC's Oct. 31 headline used 36,000 miles⁵. He is 57^2,4. Accounts differ slightly on his age when he left: DW and the AP report via ClickOrlando say 29; RTÉ says 28^1,2,4.

DW, citing AFP, said a crowd of some 500 people met him in Hull². The AP report carried by ClickOrlando said hundreds cheered at City Hall¹. RTÉ said he was expected at Queen Victoria Square around 11 a.m. local time, then at his mother's house, with a press conference at Hull City Hall later⁴.

DW reported two rules: no motorized transport to advance, and no return until the journey was finished². He used a handcart for supplies^2,5. DW said he crossed ice on the Bering Strait from Alaska to Russia with French explorer Dimitri Kieffer in 2006, and swam the English Channel from northern France to Dover over four days after returning to Britain last month². RTÉ also cited the Darién Gap, the Bering Strait and a Channel swim⁴.

The trek was planned for about 12 years but stretched more than twice as long, DW said, after a Russian visa refusal, time in jail in Panama for entering without a visa, and COVID-19 delays, including a period at a base in Mexico; he resumed each time from the same point².

A very last leg was to north Hull, to his mother, Angela, his 36-year-old son, Adam, and a 12-year-old granddaughter he had not met^2,5. Bushby told the Hull crowd, according to DW: "I didn't do this alone. There was a big team, the biggest team, Earth"².

RTÉ quoted a spokesperson saying the day would be emotional because 28 years of focusing on the next step would be over⁴. Hull's lord mayor, Maria Coward, had asked residents to turn out⁴. DW said filmmaker Werner Herzog is making a documentary titled "Walk of Life," and that Bushby told AFP in September he would have to try to settle into ordinary life in Britain².

Reuters also published a report on the return; its full text was not available for this filing³. The BBC piece, dated Oct. 31, covered the approach to Hull rather than Monday's arrival⁵.