The VI Trampoline Zermatt Summit 2026
Exclusively by Trampoline Venture Partners
Curated with academic guidance from Jonathan B. Berk, Stanford GSB, and scientific counsel from Dr. Aubrey de Grey, LEV Foundation.
The 3100 Gornergrat Circle is a strictly private, invitation-only gathering convened ahead of the main summit. Twenty seats — offered quietly, by name, to a single hand-picked circle of global achievers: unicorn-makers, world-class investors, scientists and academics, defining artists, athletes with international reach, and the rare operators who quietly bend their industries.
There is no application process and no public registration. Seats are extended directly, and once. What happens at 3,100 metres stays at 3,100 metres — held under strict Chatham House Rules, between people who have earned the right to speak plainly to one another.
In collaboration with Kulmhotel Gornergrat
Kulmhotel Gornergrat. The highest hotel in Europe, facing the Matterhorn and the Gorner Glacier — a building older than most of the institutions our guests have built.
A century of astronomy, alpine exploration, and quiet mountaineering — held in stone, snow, and silence, where altitude lends a heightened sense of focus, and the right conversations rise naturally to the surface.
Getting here was never meant to be easy. That is part of why it matters.
In 1890 a Swiss engineer asked his government for leave to lay a railway to the roof of the Alps. Work began in 1896. That first autumn the snow came early and buried the site, and one hundred and fifty men were sealed into Zermatt for an entire winter while the work moved underground, tunnelling through the dark until spring. When the drifts were finally cleared they stood six metres deep. Above 2,700 metres the builders fell ill in the thin air and were replaced by men born to the mountains. Two thousand four hundred people built it. It opened on 20 August 1898.
From the first day it ran on water, not steam. The Turbina power station drives three turbines of two hundred and fifty horsepower each, seven hundred and fifty in all, while a thousand litres of water a second develop a further thousand horsepower, enough for the line to make its own electricity. It climbs to 3,100 metres and stops at the Kulmhotel Gornergrat, alone with the Matterhorn and the Gorner Glacier.
This is where the Circle gathers, 30 November to 2 December 2026, and where the Summit closes on Saturday 5 December. Very few places on earth are this hard to reach, and that is precisely the point. More than a century ago a handful of people looked at the roof of the Alps and decided it could be reached, then spent years, capital and sheer endurance making it true. That is the conviction behind Endurance Capital and Trampoline, where elite performance meets capital allocation, and where the things worth building are built patiently, against the odds, across long horizons.
The Circle is twenty people, invited by name, who ascend together to three thousand one hundred metres to think honestly and build trust that lasts, far above the noise. Guests arrive in Zermatt during the day and ascend to Gornergrat at their convenience. The final train is currently estimated around 16:30, subject to confirmation closer to the event.
Before the public mountain wakes, freshly groomed slopes for the Circle alone. Breakfast at Kulmhotel, a private alpine lunch near the glacier, and slow afternoons of conversation between turns.
Guests descend to Zermatt and check in at the summit hotels. Free skiing and networking during the day.
The 6th Trampoline Zermatt Summit officially begins on December 3, 2026.
Three thousand one hundred metres of silence, glacier, and sky.
The mountain — for one morning — belongs to the Circle alone.
Small rooms. Long arcs. Nothing on the record.
Built slowly, away from the pace of cities and calendars.
Founders, investors, scientists, athletes, artists, academics, operators.
Alpine light has a way of dissolving the formal distance.
Estimated total guest cost
To be confirmed
Plus one / partners subject to availability
Does not include the Gornergrat railway journey — expected to be covered through the ski pass.
To build one of the most sought-after private gatherings in the world — quietly, around the Trampoline Zermatt Summit.