The Mountain Institute
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| Founded | Cherry Grove, WV, 1972 |
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| Founders | Daniel C. Taylor, King Seegar, & Lila Bishop |
| Headquarters | Washington, D.C. |
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Area served
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The Andean, Appalachian, Himalayan, and other Mountain Ranges |
| Slogan | Conserving mountain ecosystems and empowering mountain communities |
| Website | www |
The Mountain Institute (TMI) is an international non-profit organization dedicated to protecting the world's mountains by conserving mountain ecosystems and empowering the people in mountain communities. The Mountain Institute is headquartered in Washington, D.C. and operates regional field offices in the Andes,Appalachians, and Himalayas. Respectively, these are the longest, the oldest, and the tallest mountain ranges in the world.
The Mountain Institute was founded in 1972 as the Woodlands & Whitewater Institute in Cherry Grove, West Virginia. The organization's goal was to facilitate children sharing activities with their parents, experiencing adventure together, and developing relationships that would support and guide them through adolescence. Woodlands was designed as a "family equivalent to Outward Bound and National Outdoor Leadership School" with courses that brought together fathers and sons and fathers and daughters for rock climbing, caving, backpacking, fly fishing, photography, falconry, and survival skills. These outings were based out of the Spruce Knob Mountain Center, a 400-acre tract of land abutting the Monongahela National Forest on the west side of Spruce Mountain in West Virginia.
In 1973, TMI's work expanded to experiential and leadership education for youth. The Baltimore Friends School, of which TMI's founders are alumni, was the first school course. St. Paul's School for Girls came next, and the founders were soon working with a number of schools in the Baltimore, Washington, D.C., Pittsburgh, and New York City areas. These school courses quickly became TMI's niche in the experiential education world and remain so today.
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