A Bolton mum and her 77-year-old grandad braved the UK’s toughest obstacle course in memory of her son who died at 20 days old. Kaytlon Mann, 28, and her grandfather Robert Mann did not prepare at all for Born Survivor, where they joined 34 other daredevils in the Ribble Valley on September 14. Mudslides, a fire pit jump and a barbed wire army crawl – 30 obstacles overall – awaited them at the UK’s most authentic military course.
And Robert was the oldest participant there. They completed it in just under three hours. Kaytlon Mann (second from left) and Robert Mann (left) with her team (Image: Born Survivor Events UK) Kaytlon, of Bolton , said: “Born Survivor was more mentally challenging than physically.
“The obstacles were difficult but there wasn’t one we didn’t like - we all had a great time. My favourite was the torpedo, a huge slide into water, I’d do that again! “We didn’t do any training, not one single bit. “Grandad was the ringleader of us all.
He had us running most of the time despite telling us he was only going to walk it. “There were a few obstacles we looked at and thought, we can’t do that. And then grandad would say I’m doing it! We had to do it, otherwise grandad would have put us to shame.
“He was very satisfied with himself. I rang him the day after to see how he felt. I was aching all over.
When I asked him how he was feeling, he said, ‘Great, nothing more than usual.’” But they ran the course for a tragic reason. (I.