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EQUIPMENT WING

a) HMI STORE: This store provides mountaineering equipment and clothing to the personnel who would attend the various courses at this institute.
b) JAYAL MEMORIAL FUND STORE: In memory of its first principal Major Nandu Jayal the institute started an equipment store for supplying equipment to various Indian expedition.


MEDICAL WING

Medical Inspection Room (M. I. Room) with a medical officer, a Nursing Assistant and latest equipment is replete to serve at the Medical Wing of the Institute.

HOSTEL

Designed on the model of Swiss Youth Hostels,the institute has a hostel which accommodates trainees.

CHEEMA INDOOR ROCK CLIMBING HALL (Artificial Wall) :This Indoor Artificial has been named after Lt. Col. A S Cheema, former Principal who climbed the summit of Mount Everest in 1965. The wall has both panel and rock surfaces with removable synthetic holds, which offer the flexibility of route. Being indoors it remains in use even during monsoon months of the year. On international standard imprint panel outdoor climbing wall measuring 6 metres wide and 15 metres high is also near completion.

MUSEUMS :

MAIN MUSEUM

The institute has two museums. The main museum has a relief model of the Himalaya,colored in various shades, showing the principal peaks. It has a collection of dresses of hill folks in the Himalaya, flags and pennants planted on peaks climbed by Indian Expeditions, charts and photographs showing the heights of peaks and list of high altitude birds, fishes and butterflies.
A mountaineering test showing various types of mountaineering gear and equipment carried at high altitude is pitched inside the museum. The visitors get a reasonable good idea about mountain climbing from the exhibits displayed in the museum.The pictures of famous mountaineers with their mountaineering background and pictures of mountaineering terminology are exhibited in this museum. The activities in the various courses conducted by the institute are exhibited with photographs and slides.

cheema rock wall

EVEREST MUSEUM

The Indian Mountaineering Foundation donated a number of exhibits and photographs for setting up the museum.It gives a chronological history of attempts on the mountain, starting from 1852, when peak XV on the survey of the Indian maps, was found by Radha Nath Sirdar to be the highest pinnacle on the earth.

A relief model of Everest reopen and large number of presents made to the Institute by various Everest Expeditions are on display. Some of the personal clothes used by Tenzing during his ascent of Everest are also on display.

LIBRARY

The HMI is equipped with a well stocked library, which has now more than 2500 books covering a wide range of subjects, principally mountaineering, as also on travel and exploration, astronomy, geology, flora, fauna etc.
 

TELESCOPE

A powerful Veb Carl Zeiss Jena telescope capable of astronomical observations installed at HMI is of great interest to the visitors. One can view the beautiful Kanchenjunga range through this telescope. It was presented by Adolf Hitler to Maharaja Judh Shumsher Jung Bhabur 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 July 1961.

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