THIS picture shows the heart-stopping moment when youngsters scaled a landslide, dislodging rocks on to a beach yards from sunbathers.

Coastguards have sent out a stark warning to Lulworth Cove and Durdle Door visitors to stay away from the massive landslide, which wiped out 100 metres of the Dorset coast path last month.

Weymouth photographer Mark Probin said the people he photographed at St Oswald’s Bay were ‘dicing with death’.

He took these pictures as visitors flocked to Lulworth Cove and Durdle Door on Saturday.

Mr Probin, 40, said: “We saw these two kids climbing up. There were some people at the bottom who shouted up ‘be careful up there’.

“Stones started falling down and people at the bottom were yelling up ‘Be careful’.

“Who knows what could have happened. They were dicing with death.”

Portland Coastguard watch manager Andy Jenkins said he was ‘disappointed’ to hear that people are still ignoring warnings.

“I’m disappointed to hear that people are playing around on the landslide and in the vicinity because there was a huge amount of material that came down.

“If you’re halfway up the landslide you don’t have any chance and you’re putting the people below in danger.”

Mr Jenkins said the landslide, which fell on April 29, is still potentially dangerous.

“Logic would say if you have a large amount of material fallen from a cliff and you go clambering up it to dislodge it, it will come rolling down.

“Either that or there is the risk of getting stuck halfway up and we’d have to send someone into danger to rescue them.

“It’s common sense to stay away,” he said.

Mr Probin said he wants his pictures to serve as a warning.

“People think ‘it’s fine, I’ll be careful, this will never happen to me’.

“We just need a little bit of common sense.”

The renewed warning comes after Lulworth Cove residents spoke of their shock when university students were seen climbing on the landslide two days after it fell.

Coastguards experienced a busy Bank Holiday weekend.

Two kayakers were rescued by the lifeboat on Saturday lunchtime after getting into difficulty off Anvil Point near Swanage. A third kayaker with the party managed to get back to shore unaided.

The Portland coastguard helicopter helped out South Western Ambulance in airlifting a woman who had suffered a broken ankle on the coastal path near Durdle Door on Friday afternoon.

The Weymouth lifeboat helped a boat in trouble in the Portland Race.

The crew assisted the yacht Cleo after she got into difficulties and once clear of the race, the yacht made its way back to Weymouth.

A kitesurfer with a broken leg was airlifted to hospital on Friday afternoon after getting into difficulty off Poole.

The helicopter from Lee-on-Solent was called to help as the Portland helicopter was on another job.

Coastguards arranged on Saturday a vessel to tow a yacht to safety after it suffered an engine leak close to Swanage.