Summit Scholarship Foundation · est. 2019
Expedition scholarships for women and girls
Since 2019 we have sent women and girls from around the world into the high mountains — and covered the cost that kept them out.
Since 2019 we have sent women and girls from around the world into the high mountains — and covered the cost that kept them out.
The Summit Scholarship Foundation funds guiding, travel, and gear for all-women expeditions — then hands the rope to the next woman behind us.
A scholarship is never only about a summit. It is about who gets to belong in the mountains, and who gets to see herself there afterward.
Tell us where you want to go and what is standing in the way. The application opens December 15 and closes January 31 — six weeks, short on purpose.
Recipients are announced in mid-March. A scholarship covers the guiding, the travel, and the gear a big-mountain expedition demands.
Join an all-women rope team on peaks from Komo Kulshan to the Cordillera Blanca to the Matterhorn — and come home to tell the story.
By Tiffany Diep, Matterhorn Class of 2026. Freshly post-op from a hip labrum repair, she was not cleared to walk without crutches when she applied.
Mercy Wanjiru carried her community up the Salkantay trail to Machu Picchu — and what the mountains gave back.
A first glaciated summit in the Cascades, and the climb that proved it belonged to her too.
Twelve months of women in the high places. Each edition prints once, no reprints.
See the calendarThe Summit Scholarship is one initiative of the GEA Alliance — a family of programs working toward gender equity in outdoor adventure.