Daredevil and influencer Lewis Stevenson, 26, fell to his death on Sunday morning (13 October) when trying to scale the Castilla La Mancha bridge in Spain.
Plunging from the 630 ft (192m) bridge, the Brit was said to be making his way up Spain’s highest bridge without any assistance or safety equipment to take some photos and videos to post on social media.
Known as a ‘rooftopper’, Stevenson was warned by his family not to try the stunt, but as someone who ‘loved’ the hobby and completed several dangerous climbs in the past, he ‘always went out there believing he’d be alright’.
He was said to be a quarter of the way across the bridge (Lewis Stevenson)
Some of his more impressive snaps were some taken atop a New York skyscraper, some while hanging off a structure in Croatia, and a few looking out at Central London from a metal beam.
Tributes have poured in for the late adrenaline junkie, as authorities in Spain also revealed that he was with a 24-year-old friend.
It was reported that the pair were a quarter of the way across the iconic bridge before he lost his grip and fell to his death.
Local Councillor Macareza Munoz said that accessing the bridge was ‘totally banned’ after the Brit’s body was recovered at 7.14am on Sunday.
A spokesperson for National Police in Toledo said: “He was about 40 to 50 metres up, around a quarter of the total height of the bridge, when he fell.”
The statement added that ‘the reason he fell is not clear and will be investigated by a local court’, with bad weather being investigated as a possible reason.
Stevenson’s girlfriend, Savannah, has now spoken out about her boyfriend’s tragic death, explaining how tough the last few days have been.
Stevenson, originally from Derby, had tributes pouring in following his untimely passing (Lewis Stevenson)
Savannah Parker posted online: “It’s 5am and I haven’t eaten or slept. 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.”
She had last spoken to her boyfriend only eight hours before he died, with the last message she sent him reading: “Good night, I love you.”
However, Parker thinks that her partner passed out while scaling the bridge, causing him to fall off.
“He didn’t just fall. He lost consciousness because he wasn’t feeling well,” she claimed.
“His friend who he was with sent me over his police statement.
“He told his friend he wasn’t feeling well and he said, ‘Shall we go back down?’
“Lewis said, ‘Give me a minute’, and that’s when he lost consciousness and slipped,” Parker explained.
Stevenson’s girlfriend has revealed how she has been doing since her partner’s death (Lewis Stevenson)
She further added: “Every time he went away I would tell him to be careful, as much as it worries me, I don’t look into things because I worry enough as it is and I just let him do his thing and generally he just comes back.
“This weekend he didn’t. It is one thing to hear that he’s gone but it’s tragic how it happened,” she emotionally admitted.
One of the daredevil’s friends called the occurrence the ‘greatest sadness of my life’ in a tribute to the late Stevenson, while another thanked him after he ‘changed my perspective on life’.
Police, firefighters and medics rushed to the scene after the fall, but they couldn’t do anything to save him.