A 26-year-old British man has died after falling from Spain’s tallest bridge during an attempt to climb one of its pylons.
The man fell from the Castilla-La Mancha bridge, which crosses the River Tagus outside the town of Talavera de la Reina in central Spain, according to a statement from the town council, published Sunday. Local councillor Macarena Muñoz said he was accompanied by another British man, aged 24. “According to what we have been able to find out they had come to Talavera to climb the bridge and create content for social media,” Muñoz said in the statement.
The cable-stayed bridge, which was completed in 2010, is 180 meters tall and its main span measures 318 meters . The British man is far from the first person to die in the pursuit of social media content in recent years. In December 2020, a woman in Australia fell off a cliff to her death while posing for a photo at Boroka Lookout, an overhang by the side of a cliff at Grampians National Park, Victoria state, according to CNN affiliate Nine News.
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