{"id":772397,"date":"2026-09-16T10:22:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T10:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/772397\/"},"modified":"2026-09-16T10:22:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T10:22:10","slug":"stourport-man-plans-24-hour-barefoot-snowdon-challenge-for-charity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/772397\/","title":{"rendered":"Stourport man plans 24-hour barefoot Snowdon challenge for charity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The challenge comes after two knee operations, with a third planned following an ACL injury sustained while skiing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mantle said: &#8220;People think I&#8217;m pretty crazy, and it&#8217;s safe to say they think I&#8217;m mad, but my friends and family know what I&#8217;m like; I like a challenge.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;m looking forward to it. I wanted to see what I&#8217;m capable of and if my knees hold up and I&#8217;m able to do this, then I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;m capable of anything.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Despite the physical demands, Mantle believes his biggest battle will be mental.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;But I&#8217;ll be focused on the end goal, why I&#8217;m there, and that&#8217;s raising funds for a great charity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;What they go through is a lot worse than what I&#8217;ll be going through on the day, and that&#8217;s what is driving me.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;My feet hurting for a few days is nothing compared to what some people go through.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He developed an affinity for KEMP Hospice, based in the Wyre Forest, after visiting the charity as a schoolboy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mantle&#8217;s original fundraising target was \u00a3500, but he has already raised \u00a31,500 and has now increased his goal to \u00a32,000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The challenge comes after two knee operations, with a third planned following an ACL injury sustained while skiing.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":772398,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-772397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=772397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772397\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/772398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=772397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=772397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=772397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}