All women, cisgender and transgender, are welcome to apply. If your gender identity transcends the binary, please check out our sibling initiative The Compass Collective.

Applicants can apply from anywhere in the world. Most of our scholarships do not have citizenship or residency requirements. If a scholarship does have a restriction, these requirements are listed in the details of each specific scholarship page.

There is no upper age limit, and each Summit Scholarship has a different lower age limit. While most scholarships are open to applicants 18 and older, some are available to applicants as young as 14, including a dedicated mountaineering course on Mount Baker that is reserved ONLY for girls and young women.

To be considered for the Summit Scholarship, simply complete a few demographic questions and a couple of short essays during our application window.

• Applications are accepted from December 15, 2024 to January 31, 2025

• Scholarship recipients are announced in March 2025

• Scholarship expeditions & adventures take place throughout the remainder of 2025

What and how many stipends are available depends on what sponsor commitments we are able to secure, and on the outcome of our direct fundraising campaigns. You can help increase the number of available scholarships by buying a Women of Mountaineering Calendar for $30 (free shipping in the US and internationally!) or making a donation of any size on our website here.

You’ll find a list of the available scholarships further down on this page.

We are thankful for key supporters who are making this program possible.

• A big thank you to our core financial partners Fjällräven, Nite Ize,McGill’s Mountains and LOWA Boots; we couldn’t do it without you!

• LOWA, Fjallraven, LEKI and AWExpeditions all contribute invaluable product & service partnerships.

• Interested in supporting this program? Get in touch.