| Trainees Hostel |
| All students attending courses of instructions at HMI are accommodated in well furnished Hostel adjoining the Adm block. It can accommodate 120 students at a time. Trainees are served hot meals in the dining hall on the ground floor. |
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| Medical Inspection Room (MI Room) |
| Medical Inspection room (MI Room) is looked after by Medical Officer and Nursing Assistant and is equipped with latest medical equipment. The medical team provides medical cover to trainees both during indoor as well as outdoor training. |
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| Office complex and Equipment Wing |
The office complex houses office of the principal and the vice principal. It also has separate sections for training, administration and accounts.
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| (a) HMI Equipment Store. The Institute maintains an equipment wing to provide the latest mountaineering gear to its trainees, free of cost. |
| (b) Jayal Memorial Fund Store Apart from the equipment wing, provides equipment to adventure lovers on hire. The hiring charges are very nominal. The equipment is provided on first come first serve basis. |
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| OMuseum and Tenzing Norgay Samadhi |
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HMI has the oldest Museum of the country which was established in 1957. It serves as a centre of educational and research on mountaineering activities both for the trainees and research scholars.
It has a rich collection of models, paintings, sculpture, photographs, manuscripts, autographs, mountaineering equipment belonging to famous mountaineers. The Everest gallery gives a chronological history of Mt. Everest starting from 1852 when peak XV on survey of India Map was found by Mr. Radhanath Sikdhar as world’s highest peak and named after Sir George Everest the then Survey General of India.
Important collections in the Museum are as follows:
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A letter from H. H. the Dalai Lama, through which he granted the permission to the first British expedition on 20th December1920. |
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Initially the expeditions used to pass through a Dak Bunglow in Thambu (Sikkim) instead of the present route through Nepal & China. The Dak Bunglow register containing the original signatures of various eminent mountaineers since 1921 is preserved here. |
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Original signature & equipment used in the controversial expedition of 1924 by Mallory & Irvine. |
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Equipment used by Tenzing, Sir John Hunt & Sir Edmund Hillary during 1953 expedition. The first successful human ascent of Mt Everest |
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Important information & Route map of first Indian expedition to Mt. Everest in1960. |
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Original equipment used by Nawang Gombu who is the first man to climbed Mt Everest twice. |
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HMI museum is open to General public and is a must in the itinerary of all tourists visiting Darjeeling. A state of the art new museum is being made by HMI for which the building is ready and efforts are on for interior works.
After the first successful human ascent of Mt Everest, Tenzing Norgay was instrumental in setting up the Himalayan Mountaineering Institute and was for long assosciated with the Institute as the Director of Field Training. He remained an advisor and patriarch to the instituite till he breathed his last in 1976. The Tenzing Norgay Samadhi is situated in the HMI Campus itself where tourists from all over the world come to pay their homage and respects. |
| Hitler’s Telescope : A powerful Veb Canl Zeiss Jena telescope capable of astronomical observations at HMI, is of great interest to the visitors. One can view the beautiful Kangchenjunga range through this telescope. It was presented by Adolf Hitler to Majaraja Judh Shumsher Jung Bahadur Rana, Commander-in-Chief of Royal Nepal Army. It was passed down to his son General Shamsher Jung Bahadur Rana, who presented it to Himalayan Mountaineering Institute on 7th July 1961. |
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| Library: |
| HMI is equipped with a well stocked library, which has now more than 2800 books covering a wide range of subjects, mostly mountaineering, as also on travel, exploration, astronomy, geology, flora, fauna etc. Valuable additions have been contributed from time to time by the Swiss Foundation for Alpine Research, the German Alpine Club, the French Mountaineering Foundation, the Ski clubs of Japan and Canada, the Everest Foundation of the U.K. and General Shamsher Jung Bahadur Rana of Nepal. It is equipped with a complete set of Alpine Club and Himalayan Club Journals and also a large number of other Journals presented by Mountaineering Clubs and Associations in India and abroad. |
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| Indoor and Outdoor Training Aids : |
| OThe Himalayan Mountaineering Institute has constructed indoor as well as outdoor sport climbing walls for the young trainees taking training on mountaineering through modern techniques. The out door sport-climbing wall is built in accordance with the international standard, measuring 50ft high & 20ft wide. The Institute has already hosted the 7th National Sport Climbing Competition & has acquired the capability to host an international one. The indoor artificial wall has been named after Lt. Col. A.S. Cheema, former Principal, who climbed Mt. Everest in 1965. The wall has both panel & rock surface with removable synthetic holds, which offer the flexibility of route. Being indoor, it remains functional even during the monsoon months of the year. The Institute has now also started sports climbing courses for young children (12-18 years) on this wall. The wall is also utilised for training - Basic, Advance & Adventure courses
Tenzing and Gombu rocks which are located very close to the Institute provide practical training to the students on the natural rock faces. |
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| Auditorium : |
| Named after the first Principal of the Institute, the Jayal auditorium can accommodate more than 150 students at a time. It is used for lectures, and also to show various training films to both students and visitors |
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| SOUVENIR SHOP |
| Souvenir Shop at HMI provides for the visitors and trainees with various kinds of mementos, literatures, prospectus, souvenirs etc., covering HMI activities, which are available at subsidized rates. |
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| HMI RESTAURANT, PCO & ICE CREAM PARLOUR |
| HOn persistent demand of students and visitors, the Institute has opened a new restaurant and tea parlour where one can have delicious food. HMI restaurant is the only place in Darjeeling where you can taste all varieties of different types of Darjeeling tea. Original Darjeeling tea leaves are also sold here. PCO and Ice cream parlour have been opened recently to meet the requirement of both tourists and trainees. We also plan to open an Internet Café shortly within the Institute. HMI is an ideal place to enjoy one’s visit to Darjeeling. |
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