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Alumni Spotlight: Amelia Madrigal & Terry Tempest Williams

I’m Amelia Madrigal, an alum of Semester 54. I live in Western Massachusetts. Right before third exped, all the expedition […]

This past weekend, we welcomed alumni to campus for our first HMI Alumni Trip of 2026, Ski Joring & Touring!

The Leadville 100 Trail Run is one of the oldest and most challenging 100-mile races in the United States. Founded

Wells Alling Graney Family Weekend Family weekend started off on Friday night with a thirty minute deep clean of HMI.

Isabelle graduated with honors from the U.S. Naval Academy in 2022 with a degree in Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering

Summer moves quickly through Leadville. As Summer Term students can attest, snow persists in the mountains well into July most

Leadville, Colorado has come a long way in the nearly 30 years since HMI cofounders Molly and Christopher Barnes selected

“A sense of place is both the emotional attachment we experience and emotional bond we create with particular environments based

Laura Alonzo-Ochoa is HMI’s Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion Coordinator and an active Air National Guardswoman When I was a kid

As I approach my one-year mark of being back at HMI, I have marked a number of “firsts” in my