George Everest Peak Mussoorie | Best place in Mussoorie I George Everest Mussoorie Trek| Travel Logs 

George Everest Peak Mussoorie | Best place in Mussoorie I George Everest Mussoorie Trek| Travel Logs
Everest owned a house in Mussoorie, Uttarakhand, India, for about 11 years. He purchased it, sight unseen, from General Whish. Although now virtually derelict, it still has its roof, and there have been various plans to make it into a museum.
Built in 1832, the house is known today as Sir George Everest's House and Laboratory, or Park House. The house is situated in Park Estate about 6 kilometres (4 mi) west of Gandhi Chowk / Library Bazaar (the west end of Mall Road in Mussoorie). Its location has panoramic views of the Doon Valley on one side and the Aglar River valley and the Himalayan Range to the north.
Park House as seen through weathered Tibetan Buddhist prayer flags, placed by Mussoorie's longtime Tibetan community, from a vantage point at an angle above.
The house is under the jurisdiction of the Tourism Department. There are underground water cisterns (or perhaps pits for storing ice, since water is scarce in the area) that are quite deep and lie uncovered in the front yard outside the house, filled with litter and posing danger of slipping.
The interior has been stripped but the fireplaces, roof, and the door and window frames still remain. The house is secured by steel grills and cannot be entered. Now that this property is better known and the access road has been improved, the walls are covered with graffiti and then periodically whitewashed clean.
Recent new fencing, tree planting and the construction of a ticket booth (as of late 2015) indicate that at some point it will cost to enter the property. The inside has signs of renovation several years ago, such as ceramic floor tiles in the kitchen and electrical switch boxes. Conservation architects at the Indian National Trust are vying for this project. As of 2023, the house and the surrounding areas have been completely templates. The house and laboratory are not yet open to public. One can enjoy at a number of small cafes- serving a limited menu- that have been set up around the house. No tickets have to be bought as of now.
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