Eurotunnel Blocks Karl Bushby’s 36,000-Mile Walk Through Channel Tunnel
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Updated · BBC.com · Jun 16
Eurotunnel Blocks Karl Bushby’s 36,000-Mile Walk Through Channel Tunnel
3 articles · Updated · BBC.com · Jun 16
Summary
Karl Bushby, 57, was denied permission on Tuesday to use the Channel Tunnel’s service tunnel, disrupting the final European leg of his 36,000-mile walk around the world.
Eurotunnel said closing the tunnel for 15 hours or across two days would create safety risks for passenger services and interfere with essential maintenance, while access also requires specialist support and tight operational controls.
Bushby, a former paratrooper from Hull who began in Chile in 1998, said his team would review options and that he was prepared to swim the Channel because his rules bar him from using transport.
That workaround would fit his past crossings: he swam gaps in the Bering Strait in 2006 and completed a 186-mile Caspian Sea swim in 2024 before aiming to finish at his childhood home.