Phakding-Namche Bazaar The bridge is a marker of both arriving and leaving Khumbu, the “Hillary Bridge” as I’ve heard some call it, as the first bridge here was built buy his charity to bring both supplies and access to upper Khumbu. Stuck in my mind is my recent viewing (on the flight to Nepal) of the sensationalist movie Everest and the image of the bridges, the characters (based on a true story of the 1996 disaster) walking across in awe, the bridge romanticized in instantaneous, planned, shots. High, remote, exotic...