THESE pictures show the heart-stopping moment when youngsters scaled a landslide, dislodging rocks onto 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 took these pictures as visitors to 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’.

“A bloke said ‘Move away, you’re disturbing the rocks’.

“Who knows what could have happened? It could have been a call out to the helicopter or even a fatality. They were dicing with death.”

Portland Coastguard watch manager Andy Jenkins said: “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.”

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.