Alps rescue team eschew helicopters for foggy mountain climb to deliver baby

Tyrol team of 17 ascend 2,350 metres on foot to aid woman in premature labour and deliver her son on mountainside

A team of 15 mountain rescuers accompanied by a doctor and a gynaecologist climbed 2,350 metres on foot up the Austrian Alps to help deliver a baby.

The mother of the baby had been staying at a mountain hut in the eastern Tyrol region when she went into premature labour at 7am Tuesday morning, reportedly 24 weeks into her pregnancy.

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