Adventurer mobbed by crowds in Hull on final day of 28-year walk
Karl Bushby has reached the penultimate stop of his 31,000-mile journey
An adventurer has been mobbed by well-wishers as he arrived in his home city of Hull on the last day of a 28-year walk from South America.
Karl Bushby, now 57, was greeted by hundreds of people outside the City Hall on Monday as he made the penultimate stop of his journey in the centre of Hull.
He was mobbed and cheered as he walked into Queen Victoria Square wheeling his cart.
Mr Bushby said: "There has never been a welcome home quite like this, I'm sure.
"This is absolute madness. After 28 years, you couldn't ask for more than this.
"This is the last, last few steps."
The former paratrooper set off from the southern end of Chile in 1998, when he was 28, vowing to walk all the way home without using any form of motorised transport.
Mr Bushby was greeted by the Lord Mayor and Hull East MP Karl Turner, who read out a message of congratulations from Prime Minister Andy Burnham.
He went inside for a civic reception before beginning the final leg of his 31,000-mile (50,000km) journey, which is the three miles to his mother's house in the north of the city, which he last visited in 1998.
The walk has included crossing the Darien Gap in Central America and traversing the Bering Strait between Alaska and Russia on the frozen sea.
Mr Bushby arrived back in England earlier this month, announcing that he had swum the Channel.