Earning a spot on Condé Nast Traveler’s prestigious Gold List in 2019, Happy House stands as an extraordinary retreat where history, nature, and hospitality seamlessly come together.
Our plane pierced the narrow gap between a Himalayan hillside striped with terracing and a ball of cloud, its edges stained black with rain.
In the village of Phaplu in northeast Nepal, near Mount Everest, stands the favorite retreat of the late Sir Edmund Hillary. Hillary and the Sherpa mountaineer Tenzing Norgay were the first climbers confirmed to have summited the world’s highest peak.
Happy House was recognized by the Financial Times as one of the world’s best home-from-home hotels, a testament to its warm hospitality and deep-rooted history.
Tatler honored Happy House as the Best Remote Retreat in 2021, celebrating its ability to offer guests an unparalleled escape into the heart of the Himalayas.
The renowned mountaineer SIR EDMUND HILLARY rented this former sherpa’s HOUSE for decades. Now a refurbished hotel, you too can hire it AND ESCAPE FROM THE WORLD.
There are mentions of 108 beyuls, or hidden Himalayan valleys, in the Buddhist scriptures. A few years ago I made a pilgrimage to one of these divine lands, the Sherpa village of Junbesi in eastern Nepal.
The scion of a prominent Nepalese Sherpa family and owner of “Happy House”—so-called by explorer Sir Edmund Hillary—on sharing the Himalayas’ hidden valleys and villages with visitors, the hope for tourism’s return, and the Buddhist teachings that get him through.
Home to Mount Everest and seven other of the world’s 14 highest peaks, Nepal offers some of the most spectacular landscapes on the planet. Take time out from the historic monuments and temples of Kathmandu to gaze on mountain splendour from Pokhara and trek the Annapurna Circuit, stay in a traditional Sherpa house once beloved by Sir Edmund Hilary,
Unofficially named by Sir Edmund Hillary, this historic guesthouse was a firm favorite of the legendary explorer and, to this day, still attracts adventurers from far and wide.
High in the Himalayan mountain range lies a private home exuding a sense of calm, peace and warm hospitality. Fittingly named, The Happy House will whisk you away for a delightful stay.
Amid bronze figurines of the demon goddess, Kali, sunken leather arm-chairs, old-world lampshades and murals of dragons breathing smoke, is a home away from home.
Nestled in the foothills of the great Eastern Himalaya, just 30 km south of Mt. Everest, The Happy House is located in a small village named Phaplu.
When Guru Rinpoche fled the Mongols in the 8th century, he began a search for hidden beyul valleys. He found one such sacred space in the pine-clad valley that now contains The Happy House.
The Happy House is everything the name implies! A truly delightful house on the edge of the enchanting village of Phaplu in the Everest / Solukhumbu region.
Set in the Phaplu area of eastern Nepal, The Happy House is an historic retreat, a base for some of the most famous attempts on Everest, by Sir Edmund Hillary and others.