Karl Bushby

Karl Bushby (born 1969 in Kingston upon Hull, England ) is a British adventurer. He tries since 1998, became the first person in the world as part of the Goliath Expedition without circulate geographically interruptions such as oceans the earth.

Goliath Expedition

Bushby started his world record attempt on 1 November 1998 in the southern Chilean city of Punta Arenas on the Strait of Magellan and wanted to be by the year 2009 back in his English home city of Hull. Changes in the allocation of visas for Russia and associated delays Bushby expected an arrival in 2011 or even in 2012. Until then, he will have traveled about 36,000 miles ( 58,000 km) on foot. However, this does not happen in one piece, but in different stages, which explains the relatively long period of time for his company. He already crossed South, Latin and North America and was located between December 2006 and March 2007 on the way from Alaska to Russia. To this end, he ran with his French companion Dimitri Kieffer across the frozen Bering Strait. After the 15-day overcome this nearly 85 -square-mile area they were stopped at the Russian border near the town of Uelen for wrongful transgression of Russian officials, however, their journey could continue a little later, after the governor of the Russian autonomous district of Chukotka, Roman Abramovich, and the British Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott had to agree. If Bushby together with his team, without prejudice to arrive at its destination and the planned expedition route are complied with, it will have 25 countries, six deserts and seven major mountain ranges traversed by then a total of four continents.

In April 2006, appeared in the UK Bushbys book Giant Steps, in which he wrote about his experiences during his one-time world record attempt and got the positive reviews.