Descent Of The Shard will see twenty of the group, including the Duke, take part in the full abseil which spans 250m between the summit of the building at 87th floor down to the 20th floor on September 3. The rest of the group will abseil between the summit and 78th floor.
The 1,016ft (309.6m) skyscraper, situated just yards from the banks of the River Thames in Southwark, was inaugurated by the Qatari prime minister and minister of foreign affairs, Hamad Bin Jassim Bin Jabr Al-Thani, and the Duke of York, earlier this month.