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High Mountain Institute, Inc. Charity Profile
We are a small, educational non-profit located in Leadville, Colorado. HMI was founded in 1995 by Molly and Christopher Barnes in the spirit of combining best-of-class wilderness education with traditional academics.
Working with teenagers is our specialty, and we have served over 600 of them in programs varying in length from two weeks to four months. Our signature program is the Rocky Mountain Semester, a semester-long academic and wilderness program for successful high school juniors. We also offer a variety of summer programs
HMI is a nonprofit educational institution located 5 miles west of the city of Leadville, Colorado in the Upper Arkansas Valley at the foot of Colorado’s highest 14,000 ft. peaks.
HMI Mission Statement
The mission statement of the High Mountain Institute (HMI) is: “HMI nurtures personal growth through interaction with nature and participation in a strong community. We promote intellectual, physical and personal development through insistence on academic excellence, our philosophy of mentoring and apprenticing, and rigorous experiential learning. We seek to promote independent thinking and to develop skills of learning and habits of mind that both enhance self-reliance and transfer beyond the boundaries of HMI.”
We invite you to explore the wilds, challenge yourself intellectually, and hone your backcountry skills with us through an apprenticeship with Nature.
Our defining program is the Rocky Mountain Semester (RMS) an academic and wilderness program for motivated college-bound students in their junior or senior year of high school. In the wilds of the Colorado Plateau, there are many teachable moments that form a bridge between the lessons of the textbooks and those of the larger world.
HMI also offers a variety of short-term programs such as wilderness medicine and avalanche courses, custom leadership training programs, professional development seminars for educators, and program development consulting services for smaller outdoor programs.
Finally, HMI offers guided fourteener climbs in the Collegiate Peaks area, outside Buena Vista, CO. One- to three-day custom mountaineering and ski mountaineering courses are also available. Please call for more information.
HMI is not simply an environmental, experiential, or traditional school. We borrow liberally from all three traditions, but also leave ourselves open to the world at large. This allows us to present students with new experiences that they can understand and apply to their lives as a whole.
HMI offers programs that combine academics and the natural world. We seek to connect ourselves, our students, and our community to the natural world. Deep Ecologist Arne Naess coined the phrase “Simple in Means, Rich in Ends.” We strive to incorporate this in all our actions. We are not Luddites, but hopefully conscious individuals working together with and without the accoutrements of modern civilization.
We are thankful to have a talented and motivated faculty, inspiring groups of alumni, and a dedicated base of supporters. All of us work together in an intense and close-knit environment. Time spent in the field provides all of us with common experiences and strong friendships. We encourage this environment and relish the challenges it creates.
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High Mountain Institute, Inc. Donation Information
Use this form to make a donation to either the HMI Annual Fund or to Our Campaign for Sustainability. the HMI Annual Fund is used to supplement financial aid, faculty & staff support and capital projects. Our Campaign for Sustainability is a capital campaign that will fund the creation of an endowment and the completion of our campus.
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