A surgeon who trekked through the snow for three hours to operate on a cancer patient has been hailed a "real-life superwoman".

Consultant surgeon Lindsey Chisholm walked eight miles from her home in the West End to the Royal Alexandra Hospital in Paisley during the red alert for snow.

Patient Iain McAndrew told BBC Scotland he thinks her efforts were "truly amazing" but Miss Chisholm said she "didn't think it was a big deal".

Glasgow - and the rest of Scotland - was brought to a standstill during the Beast from the East storm with a red alert and warnings not to travel.

Miss Chisholm said she struggled to make it back to her home in Anniesland on Wednesday and decided she could not drive back to work the next day.

Instead she got up early and walked the eight miles to the hospital to carry out an operation on Iain, a colon cancer patient.

She said: "I do a bit of winter walking and I've got decent equipment and clothing and a pair of snow-shoes so I thought I could walk to work.

"I got up early on Thursday morning, saw there was quite a lot of snow but it didn't look impossible."

Miss Chisholm said when she finally arrived at the hospital, two colleagues saw her dressed in her winter gear with goggles and snow poles and started laughing.

She added: "I didn't think it was big deal.

"I had the right equipment, I knew there was no avalanche risk, I was not going to get lost, there were places I could stop on the way if the weather did become absolutely terrible so I just didn't think anything of it."

The surgeon said plenty of other staff had managed to make it in and the hospital actually ran five operating theatres that day.

Iain said he was "gobsmacked" when he saw the surgeon arrive still wearing her winter walking gear.

He said he was convinced his surgery would not go ahead.

He said: "When she walked in my heart took a wee jump. I thought it was amazing. If there is a real-life superwoman she is it.

"She told me my operation would be on, which made me a very happy chappy.

"It felt like a Christmas Day because she came in with all her winter stuff on and she told me she had walked in from her home.

"I couldn't believe she'd walked nearly eight miles to do surgery on me.

"She's just a very nice person and I hope people applaud what she has done for me and what she has done for the NHS to prove that the good people work for the NHS."