Julie Cheney Culberson Educational Fund

Julie Culberson was a quintessential mountain guide. Adept on rock, snow, ice and at high altitude, Julie safely guided numerous clients up the highest peaks on several continents. Even with her nearly perfect record of success, perhaps her most distinguishing characteristic as a guide was her enormous capacity for client care. Julie was strong, compassionate, and loved sharing the mountains with people. In her honor, this fund has been established to help support women who have chosen guiding as a profession.

Criteria for application

The purpose of this fund is to provide partial funding of educational endeavors for women trying to become better professional mountain guides. These endeavors may be in the form of AMGA guiding and skills courses or other comparable services, and may include avalanche and medical courses. Women's or women-driven expeditions and adventures are also candidates for funding. The successful applicant is a guide who:

• Is a current member of the AMGA
• Is currently enrolled in at least one AMGA programs
• Is pursuing guiding as a profession
• Is seeking to better her guiding skills through educational courses and/or exams
• Is not a recipient of funding from the JCCEF in the previous calendar year
• Will provide a written report on the use of the scholarship as well as provide two photographs (after the course) for the sponsor company and the AMGA within two weeks of completing the course.
• Julie Culberson's AMGA Scholarship is for women only

Submit your application

Deadline for application: January 1, 2008.
Please mail the application — along with a climbing resumé — to the AMGA at PO Box 1739, Boulder, CO 80302. Your application will be reviewed by a team of AMGA representatives.

(+) Download Scholarship Application (PDF)

If you have questions, please contact the AMGA office at 303.271.0984 or katie@amga.com.