Summit for Someone

LIVE YOUR DREAMS WHILE MAKING A DIFFERENCE

Now in its 8th year, Big City Mountaineers’ Summit for Someone program offers climbs on 13 of the world’s premiere mountains including Mt. Rainier, Mt. Kilimanjaro and the Grand Teton, all to support the mission of Big City Mountaineers: instilling critical life skills in underserved urban youth through transformative wilderness mentoring expeditions.

Funds raised by Summit for Someone participants directly affects the number of young lives BCM is able to change each year. The core BCM program is a weeklong wilderness backpacking or canoeing expedition in which five adult mentors work alongside five urban teens to help them overcome challenges, illuminate the meaning of their accomplishments and apply expedition lessons to their lives back home. BCM’s unique mentoring curriculum improves self-esteem, motivation, decision-making, responsibility and communication skills resulting in a future that embraces education, purpose and self-worth while rejecting delinquency, violence and drugs.

In 2011, Summit for Someone climbers helped provide 600 under-resourced urban youth from across the country with transformative wilderness mentoring expeditions

By climbing the peak of your dreams, you can make a lasting difference in the lives of urban youth. For more info on Summit for Someone visit www.summitforsomeone.org