The Himalayan Mountaineering Institute is on the west-Jawahar road. The institute runs courses for training mountaineers and has a very good collection of mountaineering equipments, which have been used in various mountaineering expeditions and otherwise.

Specimens of Himalayan flora and fauna are also kept here. The records of attempts made to conquer Mt. Everest are kept in the Mt.Everest Museum. The institute also screens short films on mountaineering. You can also view the Himalayan peaks through the Zeiss Telescope given to the Nepalese Maharaja by Hitler.

Sherpa Tenzing Norgay was the Director of this institute for many years and he was cremated near the institute after his death, in 1986. Near the institute is Srabri, which gives a very good view of the Single valley and the Kanchenjunga range. One can sit at Srabri and feel the cool breeze from the valley.