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British traveler Karl Bushby and his American companion Dimitri Kieffer, who were detained last April in Chukotka for crossing Russia’s frontier without notifying the country’s authorities, have arrived to Chukotka to resume their around-the-world walking expedition.

Bushby, 37, and Kieffer are preparing to start the second half of their walk from the local village of Uelen to the town of Anadyr, heading then for Magadan, a press statement from the administration of Chukotka’s Autonomous region reported Monday.

The two adventurers were detained by Chukotka's border patrol early April 2006 near Uelen, where the two travelers arrived after crossing by foot a frozen 56-mile stretch of the Bering Strait but failed to notify Russian border authorities.

In mid April, the district's court ruled that Bushby and Kieffer were to be deported from the town of Anadyr to Anchorage, Alaska, for entering Russia without first verifying their visas at a border checkpoint. Later, Chukotka's regional court did not find any grounds to support the travelers’ ill intent and overruled the district court’s decision to deport the two travelers, who then returned to Alaska to further prepare for the expedition.

The trotters are expecting to complete the first leg of their trek’s second half in the beginning of summer, the press statement said. Bushby and his companion are packing with them about 400 kilos of supplies, including traveling equipment, clothing, food and communication equipment.

Bushby started his hiking journey in 1998 from the southern tip of South America and hopes to finish it in the British town of Hull in 2010, the traveler’s site http://goliath.mail2web.com said.