No polished distance
Phone-shot vlogs and behind-the-scenes notes from the road.
Memberships for the climb
From Cape Flats to the world stage.
Follow Jean-Marc Johannes as he takes African extreme sports further—through raw phone-shot dispatches, event tracking, and the work behind every historic landing.
DBKU X Games · 2–5 September
The next stop
KARDO Finals · Russia
What membership means here
Close to the work. Honest about the journey.
Cape Ascend is built around access, not hype. Every update is rooted in Jean-Marc’s real training, real competition calendar, and the community that keeps the climb grounded.
The facts stay visible
Event dates, standings, brackets, and milestones live alongside the story.
The Cape remains central
A global run that still makes room for local coaching and Sunday sessions.
Inside Cape Ascend
A living record of how history gets made.
The tour tracker
Follow every stop as it happens.
Keep the Barcelona and KARDO windows in view with live-blog updates, competition context, and shareable milestones when the moment lands.
Raw dispatches
Short, unfiltered vlogs from early sessions, travel days, loading bays, and the quiet work no highlight reel shows.
The story behind the score
Historic tricks, competitor context, and the people who make an African first feel like it belongs to all of us.
The next milestone is live
Be there when the next first lands.
Join Cape Ascend for the road to Barcelona, the KARDO Finals, and everything Jean-Marc builds between the big stages.
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