Where Nature & Minds Meet - The High Mountain Institute was founded in the spirit of combining wilderness and intellectual pursuits. Our programs combine academic learning with wilderness skills, travel and connecting to the natural world. Our defining program is the HMI Semester - an academic and wilderness program for academically motivated high school juniors. Additionally, HMI offers a Summer Term (a 5 week academic & wilderness program), hosts wilderness medicine courses, avalanche training, and offers focused custom programming and consulting to schools and other educational entities.