“We all share pride in his incredible achievement. We also know what it’s like to come home to Hull, that feeling as your car or train, or feet in Karl’s case, crosses or goes under the Humber Bridge and over the city boundary.
“As the world’s media and documentary crews gather in our city, we can show them how proud we are of Karl’s achievement and how proud we are to be from Hull.”
The former paratrooper’s extraordinary quest was ignited by a birthday card from his father, Keith, in the mid-90s. Keith, himself an Army veteran, recalled a debate among special forces soldiers about the feasibility of walking from London to New York via the Bering land bridge.
A continuous line was traced across a map by Mr Bushby, spanning Europe and Asia to North America, and rather than stopping at New York, continued all the way down to the southern tip of Chile.
