After 28 years, 50,000 kilometres and 29 countries, British adventurer Karl Bushby has finally completed one of the most extraordinary journeys in modern exploration. From the jungles of the Darién Gap to the frozen Bering Strait and the waters of the English Channel, he has overcome seemingly impossible obstacles to fulfil a promise he made to himself in 1998. Speaking exclusively to TO VIMA, he reflects on the sacrifices, loneliness, kindness of strangers and the emotional challenge of returning home.

There are times when the sound of the shifting tectonic plates of history rings out a little more clearly