A MAN has been injured while climbing on the Dorset coast.

Coastguards said the 40-year-old visitor suffered leg and wrist injuries while attempting to scale cliffs near Anvil Point, Swanage.

The climbing area is known as Subluminal and is popular with enthusiasts because of its good selection of routes.

Climbs range in height from 8m-40m.

A spokesman for Portland Coastguard said the climber, from Henley-on-Thames in Oxfordshire, was secured by ropes when he fell and did not plunge directly to the bottom of the cliff.

The coastguard helicopter airlifted the injured man to hospital following the fall on Sunday.