British content material creator and photographer Lewis Stevenson (left) died whereas filming a video as he scaled the Castilla La Mancha bridge in Spain (proper). A photographer plunged to his dying after falling from Spain’s tallest bridge whereas attempting to movie a video. British content material creator and photographer Lewis Stevenson died after falling from Castilla La Mancha bridge in Talavera de la Reina, Spain on October 13, in accordance with the BBC. The 26-year-old fell to his dying whereas filming a video as he was trying to scale the 630-foot-tall Castilla-La Mancha Bridge. Stevenson was filming content material for his social media account. Stevenson was accompanied by one other 24-year-old British man as he tried to climb the Castilla-La Mancha Bridge within the early hours of the morning, in accordance with a press launch printed by Macarena Muñoz, Talavera de la Reina’s Councillor for Citizen Safety. Nonetheless, Stevenson reportedly fell from the bridge at round 7:14 a.m. and died. Stevenson’s physique was faraway from the scene and brought to a close-by funeral house by a coroner. “As we’ve got been capable of finding out, that they had come to Talavera to climb the bridge and create content material for social networks, which has resulted on this unlucky and unhappy consequence,” Muñoz says in an announcement.
The cable-stayed bridge, which opened in 2011, is the tallest in Spain and one of many tallest in Europe. Muñoz says that climbing the bridge is strictly prohibited and metropolis officers have reiterated on many events that it “can’t be carried out beneath any circumstances.” Nonetheless, native media shops report that the Castilla-La Mancha Bridge has lengthy drawn content material creators who scale it regardless of the ban. Spanish media shops have prompt that the Castilla-La Mancha Bridge was probably slippery following rain within the area however these reviews haven’t been confirmed. In an announcement to the BBC, Stevenson’s mom paid tribute to her son. She described him as a “thrill-seeker” who had a ardour for images — somewhat than a content material creator. “He was a thrill-seeker who liked to journey and have new experiences,” his mom Keilia Stevenson says. “We as a complete household supported his adventures all over the world, which included wonderful locations he received to go to like Easter Island and Machu Picchu, however sadly these adventures additionally included climbing nice heights which we didn’t significantly agree with however understood this was what he liked to do.
“He knew his limits and by no means did something past them. He was a eager photographer and he did this all for ardour, not as an influencer.” Picture credit: Header photograph through Fb (left) and Wikimedia Commons (proper).
