Exeter's Quay will be buzzing this August Bank Holiday weekend as it plays host to some of the world’s top climbers at a spectacular climbing competition.
Thousands of spectators are expected to attend the thrilling climbing event on the Quay - and if you fancy dropping off a seven metre wall into the canal - they’ll also be a chance for novices to have a go.
Quay Climbing is staging its third annual Deep Water Solo Festival of Climbing over the August Bank Holiday weekend; the event sees a temporary seven metre high climbing wall erected in the city’s canal basin.
Exeter's canal basin will become home to the UK's first inland deep water solo competition this weekend.
The event, which runs from Saturday 30th to Sunday 31st August, has attracted top climbers from across the UK and Europe to compete in the first event of it's kind in the UK.
They will climb an artificial wall, without the use of ropes until they reach the top or fall off. If they fall they will fall into the canal basin below. The event mimics a form of climbing known as deep water soloing which is practised on sea cliffs and is growing in popularity....
