Himalayan Mountaineering Institute

Address
	Jawahar Parbat, Darjeeling, West Bengal 734101; Darjeeling, West Bengal; India
Information
Motto	May (YOU) Climb from Peak to Peak
Founded	4th November, 1954
Founder	Jawaharlal Nehru, Tenzing Norgay
Principal	Gp Capt Jai Kishan
Enrolment	45,000
Sports	Mountaineering

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The Himalayan Mountaineering Institute (HMI Darjeeling) was established in Darjeeling, India on 4 November 1954^[1] to encourage mountaineering as an organized sport in India. The first ascent of Mount Everest in 1953 by Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary sparked a keen interest in establishing mountaineering as a well-respected endeavour for people in the region. With the impetus provided by the first prime minister of India, Jawaharlal Nehru, HMI was established in Darjeeling. Narendra Dhar Jayal, the pioneer of Indian Mountaineering, was the founding principal of the institute. Tenzing Norgay was the first director of field training for HMI. The buildings for the Institute were designed by the architect Joseph Allen Stein, then teaching at the Bengal Engineering College near Calcutta. It was the first building in a career in India that lasted half a century.

HMI regularly conducts Adventure, Basic and Advanced Mountaineering courses. These are very comprehensive courses. They are also highly subsidised to encourage mountaineering as a sport.