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This man has been walking for 27 years to become the only person in history to walk around the entire planet with just one rule, no transport of any kind. Carl Buschby began his journey in 1998 from the southern edge of Chile, saying, "I'll return home only on foot." After two years, he had crossed all of South America and faced his first major obstacle, the Daryan Gap, one of the deadliest places on Earth, with its impenetrable jungle, smugglers, and armed clashes between rebels and the military. As part of a group, Carl spent 50 days avoiding danger and somehow made it out alive. Panamanian soldiers even held him for 18 days before letting him continue his trek. It took six years to cross all of Central and North America and reach the Bearing Strait, which separates the two continents. After waiting for the Strait of Freeze, he and French traveler Dmitri Kiefer became one of the first ever to cross it on foot, despite drifting 80 kilometers off course. Then he faced arrest in Russia and strict visa limits, which forced him to leave the route every 90 days and return to the exact same spot to continue his journey. As a result, his trek across Siberia, where temperatures dropped to -50, stretched over 11 long years. When the world shut down during the pandemic and borders closed, Carl was stuck in Kazakhstan for four years and hit a dead end, the Caspian Sea. He couldn't go around it through Russia or Iran, so he made one choice to swim across. Using the support boat only for rest and sleep, he and American traveler Angela Maxwell crossed the Caspian Sea in 30 days, becoming the only people ever to do so. After nearly three decades, 25 countries and 47,000 kilometers, Carl is now walking across Europe and is expected to finally return home by 2026.