Expedition scholarships for women and girls.
We cover the cost that keeps women and girls off the big peaks — the guiding, the travel, the gear — and hand the rope to the next woman behind us.
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.
The Summit Scholarship is one initiative of the GEA Alliance — a family of programs chasing gender equity in outdoor adventure.