THE brother of York schoolboy Oscar Hughes who died from a brain tumour has met up with Chief Scout and adventurer Bear Grylls before taking part in a survival race.

Bear first chatted to Seb Hughes live on Dermot O’Leary’s show on BBC Radio 2 back in June, when Seb and 99 other children were about to attempt to climb Mount Snowdon in Wales during atrocious weather.

From the studio, he gave Seb tips on how to survive such conditions but the youngsters and their families were eventually turned back by rangers during the climb because of 70 mph winds and driving rain.

Seb, of Dunnington, told Bear how the climb was just the latest fundraising venture of OSCAR’s (Ongoing Support, Care And Research into Paediatric Brain Tumour Charity), which was set up to fight childhood brain tumours after his nine-year-old brother Oscar died in 2014 from such an illness.

Bear then invited Seb and the other walkers down to London to take part in the BG survival race at the end of September - during which runners went through a variety of challenging obstacles, aimed at testing strength, agility, targeting, evasion, memory, observation and a variety of other core skills.

Seb’s mother Marie said she, Seb and his young brother Lucas met Bear backstage prior to the survival race, in which Seb and friends completed a 10k obstacle course and Lucas finished a 2-3 K course for younger entrants.

“Bear was really nice and genuinely excited to meet Sebastian, who he mentioned on stage,” she said.

“He also mentioned the charity. We are doing Snowdon walk again next year and used the opportunity to have a stall at Bear Grylls’ race and festival to create awareness about this.”

Bea posted a picture of himself with the Hughes on Instagram, with the comment: “Some of my fav pics from our @bgsurvivalrace @beargryllssurvivalchallenge @landrover today!

“So many heroes, from Scouts to blind runners, elite athlete winners, the Commandos & best of all young Sebastian running in memory of his brother Oscar. #nevergiveup”

The charity, which also had 72 runners taking part in relay teams in yesterday’s marathon in York, went past the quarter of a million pounds milestone following the attempted climb. It has already helped fund international research into childhood brain tumours, including £125,000 towards a project at the Institute of Cancer Research.