THIS MUM ate giant bugs, drank slimy rain water, hiked 200 miles through a desert and climbed a mountain - all to show her son she was proud of him.
Lindsay Scaife, 32, of Monument Drive, Brierley applied to the BBC's Extreme Dreams when nine-year-old Lucas went into remission after a five-year battle with leukaemia.
The former florist fought off competition from more than 10,000 entrants to be one of the five selected to take the endurance trip of a lifetime to the Sahara in Libya.
She said: "My little boy has had to go through chemotherapy for almost five years and I thought I would like to make him proud of me just like I am of him.
"It was pretty gruelling. On the very last day we were out there in the middle of a sandstorm. One by one we collapsed and they had to send emergency vehicles but we finished it that night in the pitch black. There was only three of us who managed to last the full two weeks."
