IN affirmation of the local proverb that says that some people attain satiety, only to look for something to burst their stomach, British influencer Lewis Stevenson ended his odyssey in Spain recently. The 26-year-old, who plunged to his death from Spain’s highest bridge as he tried to snap daredevil Instagram post from a 630ft landmark, had no reason at all to take the plunge, as such stunts on the Castilla La Mancha bridge are strictly forbidden, and the law is public knowledge. Actually, Lewis did not only take a daring, foolhardy step, he did so using no safety equipment whatsoever, and on a Sunday morning to boot.
He had resolutely ignored his family’s desperate pleas to call off the risky climb. Before his tragic demise, Lewis had shared many photos of his climbing stunts all over the world on social media for at least five years. Speaking from his home in Derby, his grandfather Clifford Stevenson, 70, told an interviewer: “We all tried to talk him out of it.
We were always trying to talk him out of doing things but that was the way he was. He loved doing it, always went out there believing he’d be alright. He did what he did for his own pleasure.
He did not get any money for it, he was an adventurer.” According to his heartbroken girlfriend, Savannah Parker, Lewis had travelled out to Spain on Friday, October 11 and was due to return home on Monday, October 14. She said: “I thought he’d just be trying to get a sunrise picture.
I thought he must have stuck.