RACE FOR A CAUSE
Voted 2025 endurance race of the year!
Voted 2025 endurance race of the year!
Check out our athletes raising money for Charity
Interested in racing for a cause in the 2026 Half Everest? Reach out to us at contact@elevationeverest.com. We’d love to hear why you’re racing and promote you on our website!
RESCUE PINK
There are more than 60 million missing girls in India. These girls were never given the chance to grow, thrive, or live out their potential. Many are lost due to deep-rooted cultural preferences that leave girls vulnerable to neglect, exploitation, trafficking, or early and forced marriage. This heartbreaking reality is rooted in centuries of devaluing women and girls. Rescue Pink exists to change that story through rescue, prevention, and awareness.
Solo half-Everest finisher (2025) Joanna Larsen will be racing again in 2026 to fundraise for Rescue Pink and their newest center in Northern India in the region of Uttarakhand. The North presents a unique array of challenges: there are currently only 840 girls for every 1,000 boys living in Uttarakhand. If that trajectory continues, in 18 years there will be nearly 300,000 girls missing there. The region is tucked deep in the Himalayas, and few NGOs survive there. Like Elevation Everest, it's literally an uphill battle, both for organizations like Rescue Pink, and also for these girls fighting against all odds for their survival. If you'd like to walk alongside these incredible women and girls in India, please visit the link below.
Climbing for Tommy
14,516 feet of hope. This September, firefighter Mike DuBois will be competing in the 2025 Half Everest Race but he won’t be climbing for himself. He’ll be climbing for Tommy - a joyful, determined five-year-old boy who has been diagnosed with muscular dystrophy.
While Mike’s climb will take place over a single day, Tommy and his family are facing a lifelong mountain. From medical appointments to adaptive equipment, therapy, and the unknown still ahead, their journey is constant.
Mike is climbing to raise funds to go 100% directly towards Tommy’s future care. If you’d like to make a direct impact in helping him access the resources he needs, please follow the link below.
Project Limitless
Project Limitless is a nonprofit that aims to provide adults with special needs/different abilities the experiences, funding and medical resources they need to thrive as members of our community. The foundation was formed as the result of frustration with the barriers and expenses those with physical impairments and special needs encounter just in the pursuit of living life. We believe that everyone should be able to afford the tools they need to thrive, and strive to create a welcoming environment where everyone has a place to go to flourish, as well as the financial support to obtain the therapies, care and tools they need.
Founders Kelsey Bellanca and Jenny LeChevallier competed in The Half Everest 2024 and now in 2025, founder Kaitlyn Yonke plans to join them with a go at The Full Everest. They will be competing to fundraise for Project Limitless and their newly formed guide program, which pairs Title III athletes with the guides they need to compete in athletic events.
