Miles inland, at the Junta de los Ríos, a 36-year-old man had to be helivacked (old military abbreviation for Helicopter Evacuation) after he broke his ankle, descending the waterfalls.

The Guardia Civil had received a call around 17.15h on the 17th of July to say that somebody had injured himself– again – in this now-popular canyon. Thanks to the geography of the waterfalls, there is no way that you can get out if you seriously injure a leg. It’s not exactly an easy place to get a helicopter into, either. Finally, it didn’t help in this case that the man was pretty ‘corpulent’ meaning not even his expeditionary colleagues could carry him.