Actually, the subject is ‘After 28 years walking across the globe, he’s almost home’. I found it curious that someone else would walk for as long as 38 years, and I don’t see any conflict with the subject.
Yeah... not actually objecting to you bringing him up, but I was briefly confused (longer than it should have been as I had some trouble getting the NYT artictle to load), and I thought the point was worth clarifying.