A British adventurer completed a 100-mile ultra marathon across a frozen Mongolian lake in jeans and brogues after his airline lost his luggage. Peter Messervy-Gross, 47, spent months buying specialist kit for the four-day Mongol 100 challenge, which took place in temperatures reaching -25C.

But when he flew from Heathrow to Mongolia’s capital Ulaanbaatar, his bags didn’t come off the plane with him. Unable to buy footwear to fit his size 13 feet, he decided to take on the challenge in what he was wearing. Other competitors in technical footwear dubbed him ‘the rogue in brogues’ as he clambered across ice sheets in his four-year-old shoes, and a borrowed set of spikes.

The father of three, from Jersey, was left in agony for his efforts – but unlike others who dropped out of the race through injury, fatigue or the cold, he kept on going.

Mr Messervy-Gross, an information officer, had initially been told by airline Aeroflot that his luggage would arrive before the race, two days after he landed in Mongolia, so he bought nothing but an extra pair of thermals.

But when he and fellow competitors took a short flight to the Khuvsgul lake in the north of the country, he realised the bags would not be arriving.

Other trekkers, and the UK organisers Rat Race Adventure Sports, loaned him emergency rations and extra clothing. (Dailymail.co.uk)