My stint with Basic Mountaineering Course (BMC) in HMI, Darjeeling 2014
Every mountaineer’s dream is to conquer the world’s highest mountain “the Mount Everest” & it was a dream for me too. I read somewhere that while going to conquer Everest you will find 100 reasons that can end up in death but just one reason to live. Even though I didn’t knew the basics of mountaineering yet I sheltered a dream of conquering it .From the last four years I have been researching on this & how to go through it . finally I concluded that I will require a huge amount of money and doing a Basic & Advance Mountaineering courses will be a boon as it will make me mentally and physically equipped .So I opted for Basic Mountaineering Course in Himalayan Mountaineering Institute (HMI), Darjeeling, the First Mountaineering Institute in India that was founded in 1954 by Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru whose first Director was Tenzing Norgay. The Institute was formed just after Edmund Hillary & Tenzing Norgay summit the highest peak in 1953.Later only did I know that HMI w
