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Glasgow Live
Kathleen Speirs

Hero Lanarkshire boy scales Ben Nevis for medics who 'saved his life'

A Lanarkshire eight-year-old has scaled the's UK highest mountain to raise money for 'the doctors who saved his life'.

The day after Caden McKellar was born, his mum, Jennifer worried that he was 'struggling to feed'. Medics asked the 37-year-old to bring her newborn back to Glasgow's Princess Royal Maternity Hospital where they found the tot had malrotation of the bowel.

Left untreated, the pre-natal abnormality, more commonly known as twisted bowel, can prove fatal. Little Caden was blue-lighted to the then Yorkhill hospital with frantic Jennifer and her husband, Scott, 37, driving behind in their car.

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