{"id":822226,"date":"2026-11-03T00:18:09","date_gmt":"2026-11-03T00:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/822226\/"},"modified":"2026-11-03T00:18:09","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T00:18:09","slug":"somerset-man-75-living-under-cloud-of-prostate-cancer-to-trek-100km","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/822226\/","title":{"rendered":"Somerset man, 75, living &#8216;under cloud&#8217; of prostate cancer to trek 100km"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Allen said the large sand dunes in the Sahara would be &#8220;the biggest challenge, especially in the likely temperatures&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sahara desert temperatures can reach 40C during the day and drop to 0C overnight. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Allen will be joined by his son, James, and led along the route by Berber tribesmen. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Megan Smart, from Prostate Cancer Research, said the charity was &#8220;totally inspired and just motivated&#8221; by Allen and aimed to support him as much as possible. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The money raised would help &#8220;change that future for men&#8221; with prostate cancer, said Smart. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Follow BBC Somerset on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/bbcsomerset\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook, external<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bbcsomerset\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">X, external<\/a>. Send your story ideas to us on email or via <a href=\"https:\/\/bbc.in\/47DEoQy\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WhatsApp on 0800 313 4630<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Allen said the large sand dunes in the Sahara would be &#8220;the biggest challenge, especially in the likely&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":822227,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[59,102,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-822226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-gb","tag-health","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822226","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=822226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822226\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/822227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=822226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=822226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=822226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}