Can your team navigate, endure & finish before the terrain breaks your pace? Take on 12km across the UK’s most unforgiving coastal routes.

ASCENT™

The terrain becomes your biggest obstacle.

ASCENT™ is a Commando-inspired endurance and navigation challenge that takes your team across one of the UK’s most unforgiving coastal landscapes.

Starting at Seven Sisters Country Park and finishing in Eastbourne, participants will cover approximately 12 kilometres of relentless climbs, punishing descents and exposed ridgelines while navigating the South Downs Way.

Working from a route card, teams must locate a series of checkpoints to gather essential information that will ultimately lead them to the winners’ supply drop at the finish.

The challenge isn’t simply to reach the end.

It’s to maintain your pace, your judgement and your standard when the terrain demands more from you than the last climb.

Inspired by the endurance standards of the Royal Marines Commandos, ASCENT™ has been designed to develop and test the qualities that matter when pressure builds.

Leadership. Performance. Resilience.

Do you have what it takes to meet the standard?

Distance: 12km (7.5 miles)

Elevation: 531ft (162m)

Location: Seven Sisters & Beachy Head, East Sussex

Terrain: Coastal cliffs, chalk grassland & undulating trails

Difficulty: Moderate–Hard

Event Categories

Team – Clean Fatigue

Team – Load Bearing

Load Bearing Division

Participants entering the Load Bearing category must carry a minimum of 30lbs (excluding water) in a suitable daysack or bergen. All loads will be weighed by the Directing Staff prior to the start.

Safety Notice

You should be physically and medically fit to take part in this event and will be required to complete a medical declaration and waiver. If you have any doubts about your ability or suitability to take part, please contact us first before booking.

A trained first aider(s) is present at all of our events.

The route follows the coastal path and therefore it is imperative to keep to the well-trodden trails as well as a safe distance away from the cliff edge.

Our Event Series

BEACH ASSAULT ™ | ASCENT ™ | PATROL ™ | RAID ™

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