Tourist Falls to Death From Spanish Lookout

A scenic overlook in northern Spain has once again become the site of tragedy. A 38-year-old British man died Friday after falling an estimated 400 feet from an observation point on Mount Urgull in San Sebastián, the Liverpool Echo and Independent report, citing local media. A passerby reportedly discovered the man's body around 11am on the Paseo Nuevo coastal path, which wraps around the base of the 400-foot-tall hill. Emergency crews responded but the man, who has not been publicly identified, was pronounced dead at the scene.

Regional police force Ertzaintza has opened an investigation, and an autopsy will now be performed. Mount Urgull, which overlooks the Salamanca promenade and Zuloaga Square, is a well-known vantage point and hiking area. It has seen at least one fatal fall before: a 65-year-old woman died after falling from Urgull to the Paseo Nuevo path in 2019, per People. A year earlier, a teenage boy was seriously injured in another fall, and in 2013, a 20-year-old man died in a rockfall on Urgull's slopes, local outlet El Diario Vasco reports.