The Snow Leopard award () was a Soviet mountaineering award, given to highly skilled mountaineers. It is still recognized in the Commonwealth of Independent States. To receive this award, a climber was required to summit all five peaks within the former Soviet Union with elevation above .
It was founded on October 12, 1967 by the Central Council of Sports Societies and Organizations of the USSR.
The Snow Leopard peaks include:
In Tajikistan's Pamir Mountains there are three Snow Leopard peaks, Ismoil Samani Peak (formerly Communism Peak) , Peak Ozodi (formerly Peak Korzhenevskaya) , and Ibn Sina Peak (formerly Lenin Peak) on the Kyrgyzstan-Tajikistan border.
In the Tian Shan there are two Snow Leopard peaks, Jengish Chokusu (formerly Peak Pobeda) in Kyrgyzstan (divided by the border with China), and Khan Tengri on the Kyrgyzstan-Kazakhstan border. Khan Tengri's geologic elevation is but its glacial cap rises to . For this reason, it is considered a peak.
In order of difficulty, Jengish Chokusu is by far the most difficult and dangerous, followed by Khan Tengri, Ismail Samani Peak, Peak Korzhenevskaya, and Lenin (Ibn Sina) Peak.
There are more than 600 climbers, including 31 women, who have received this award between 1961 and 2012 (although not all of them completed the five peaks).