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John Bett

Men spend four days and nights climbing huge roof crack below M5 motorway bridge

Two expert climbers complete their most challenging climb - on the underside of the M5

Tom Randall, 42, and Pete Whittaker, 31, are up there with the best roof crack climbers in the world but unfortunately, they were unable to travel during the coronavirus pandemic and so had to put training on hold.

After they grew tired of waiting for restrictions to be lifted, they racked their brains for a way to replicate the same conditions and then it hit them - bridges.

They put out a call of action to their fans and enlisted an army on social media to help them track down the perfect bridge, and eventually, they found it - part of the M5 in Devon, over the River Exe.

Now known as The Great Rift, the climb is around 800m (2,600ft) and Tom, from Sheffield, said it was "the biggest roof crack we'll ever do."

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