The Basics: Please tell us your name, and how we can get in touch with you.
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This scholarship does not have any residency or nationality restrictions.
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The Adventure Lens Grant is available to women and 18 years or older at the time of the expedition. There is no upper age limit.
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We care about providing a safe and supportive environment for all Summit Scholarship and Adventure Lens Grant recipients. Participation in our scholarship expeditions is limited to women, cis and trans, in order to provide a properly safe and supportive environment for all participants present.
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I acknowledge that expedition participation is limited to women (cis and trans).
How would you describe your ethnicity?
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Have you applied to the Summit Scholarship before?
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Are you applying to the Adventure Lens Grant as a photographer, filmmaker, or both?
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Photographer
Filmmaker
Both
If you were to receive the Adventure Lens Grant, which Summit Scholarship expedition would be keen to accompany and document?
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Mount Baker Mountaineering School | July 13-17 2025
Rope Team Rising Mount Baker | Youth July 20-26 2025
Ishinca & Tocllaraju | Peru July 13-17 2025
Why are you the right candidate to receive the Adventure Lens Grant?
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Tell us why you’re the ideal fit for this opportunity. Consider sharing what drives your passion for storytelling, how you approach challenges, and what unique perspective or skills you would bring to documenting this expedition. What impact do you hope your participation and work will have on others or the outdoor community?
What’s your creative vision for the story you want to tell?
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Imagine yourself on the expedition, camera in hand. What kind of story do you want to capture and share with the world? Consider the emotions, themes, and perspectives you’d like your work to convey. How would you use your storytelling to celebrate women in the outdoors and inspire others to see themselves in these spaces?
Please share a link to your website, portfolio or excerpts from your work
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Tell us about any relevant expedition or outdoor experience you’ve had.
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While prior expedition experience isn’t required, we’d love to know if you’ve spent time in the backcountry, captured stories in the outdoors, or worked in physically challenging environments. What have you learned from those experiences, and how might they help you prepare for this expedition?
Do you have prior mountaineering experience?
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Crampon use
Self arrest
Roped glacier travel
High altitude (>14,000ft)
Is there anything else we should know about your application?
The Nuts and Bolts
If needed, I am willing and able to increase my level of training to meet the requirements for my expedition/adventure.
I understand that the Adventure Lens Grant covers the full expedition fee, select mountaineering gear, and a $1,000 travel stipend. I understand that I will be responsible for making my own travel arrangements to and from the climb's departure city.
I understand that I will be responsible for my own camera equipment, my own personal mountaineering gear unless otherwise indicated, and for purchasing my own travel & rescue insurance
Climbing is an inherently risky activity. I understand that I will have to sign an Acknowledgement of Risk and Waiver of Liability for the Summit Scholarship Foundation and its partner organizations.
I do not have any known medical conditions that prevent me from participating in sustained strenuous physical activities.
I grant the Summit Scholarship Foundation permission to reproduce excerpts from my application as part of the Summit Scholarship program.
I understand that the $1,000 content deliverable budget is contingent upon the delivery of high-quality, professional-grade output and available exclusively for exceptional work that furthers the mission of the Summit Scholarship Foundation.
Non-discrimination pledge
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I understand that absolutely no racist, sexist, transphobic, homophobic or ableist language, attitudes or actions will be tolerated. I also understand that this organization & the trips provided are trans-inclusive.
How did you hear about the Summit Scholarship?
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