Lewis Stevenson, a 26-year-old British influencer, don die after he fall from the 630ft high Castilla-La Mancha Bridge in Talavera de la Reina, Spain. Him and him friend, wey be 24 years old, dey climb the bridge without harness for social media video.
Stevenson’s family bin try to stop am from doing dis kind of risky things, but him no gree. Him grandfather, Clifford Stevenson, talk say, “We all try to talk him out of it. We always try to talk him out of doing things but that was the way he was. He love doing it – he always go out there believing he’d be alright. He do what he do for his own pleasure. He no get any money for it, he be an adventurer”.
Stevenson’s girlfriend, Savannah Parker, post emotional message on social media, say she wish say his death be “a nightmare”. She write say, “It’s 5am and I haven’t eaten or slept,” and “Someone tell me this is a nightmare. I feel violently sick at the fact you’re not coming back. Please come back. Answer the phone”.
Friends and members of the free climbing community don dey share tributes to him on social media. One friend write say, “Knowing you has been one of the greatest privileges of my life. And losing you is the greatest sadness of my life. No amount of words on a stupid Instagram post will ever describe how much I miss you”.
The local council dey look at ways to make access to the bridge more difficult and to install CCTV cameras to boost security after the incident. Macarena Munoz, the councillor for citizen security, say climbing the bridge “is totally prohibited and which we have reiterated on many occasions cannot be done under any circumstances”.
