The team's epic journey finished at the Reform Club in central London - the same club that fictional explorer Phileas Fogg ended his voyage.

As part of the challenge, Derby-based Miles Hilton-Barber, 54, who is blind, drove a Formula One racing car and Mike McKenzie, 52, a double leg amputee from Piddington in Oxfordshire scuba dived in the Red Sea.

As well as raising money for charity the explorers wanted to show that disability should not be a barrier to living a full life.

Mr Hilton-Barber and Mr McKenzie were joined by 30-year-old blind fund-raiser Caroline Casey of Dublin and Belfast-born Robin Dunseath, 62, who now lives in Edinburgh and is an adventure leader.

The group arrived at the Reform Club on Tuesday in the final and 80th mode of transport - a spaceship carried on the back of a lorry.

Other ways of travelling included riding horse and even climbing on the back of an ostrich.