The body of a 21-year-old Irish woman has been recovered after a climbing accident near Malaga in Spain.

She fell around 150 metres while rock-climbing near the village of El Chorro, close to the suspended walking trail, the Caminito del Rey.

Her climbing companion also fell, but he survived by grabbing onto a boulder at the side of a ravine.

The climbers are understood to have lost their balance after taking the wrong route while descending.

Main image: Policia Nacional cars in Arroyo de la Miel, Malaga province, Spain. Image: Ken Welsh / Alamy. 5 October 2010