Brit collapses and dies at popular Greek beauty spot while trying to take photo of planes

A British man has collapsed and died at a popular Greek beauty spot while trying to take a photo of fighter jets passing overhead.

The man, who has not been named, was found in the Vouraikos gorge in Kalavryta after his friends alerted emergency services around 8.30am on Friday. He is said to have been stood on cliffs taking photographs of fighter jets with a group when he collapsed.

Friends made repeated unsuccessful attempts to resuscitate him, and emergency services then faced a difficult task to rescue the man from the 12-mile-long gorge, which is by the River Vouraikos and part of the Chelmos-Vouraikos National Park. He later died in hospital. Local firefighters wrote on X (formerly : "An unconscious man was transported from a difficult place in the area of the Mega Cave of Kalavryton and handed over to the E.K.A.B [emergency teams]. They [brought] 7 firefighters with 2 vehicles."

Local media reported he may have been suffering from a prior illness. A number of plane spotters at the Vouraikos gorge to watch fighter jets taking part in NATO's Ramstein Flag exercise over the Greek countryside.

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