Optometrist battles through 21st Ben Nevis Race

A fell running optometrist has again completed a run up and down the UK’s highest mountain, Ben Nevis, despite a number of health setbacks.

Mandy Goth, from Benjamin Opticians in Skipton, completed the Ben Nevis Race last month for the 21st consecutive time, despite being diagnosed with breast cancer in 2007 and enduring many months of treatment.

‘I lost all my hair and it was tough to come back from that but I still wanted to run the Ben race,’ she said.

Having beaten cancer, Goth suffered another health setback last April when she had a Tachycardiac attack, but finished this year’s race in three hours and six minutes.