HIMALAYA: KHUMBU: Phakding Village, Nepal

This is the place where the trail from the airstrip at Lukla to Namche Bazaar and Everest crosses the Milke Danda river. These days, during the peak trekking seson, over a hundred flights a day service lukla, and there are thousands of trekkers passing each way every day. Given that most of them will not be carrying their own luggage, but will have either porters or yaks with them, the volume of traffic on the trail can be imagined. It is a circus. Waits of several hours are not uncommon here, as one-way traffic streams across the narrow suspension bridge over the river. Consequently many tea shops and lodges have sprung up...Nikon D300, 17-35mm. November 2008
Phakding Village, Nepal

This is the place where the trail from the airstrip at Lukla to Namche Bazaar and Everest crosses the Milke Danda river. These days, during the peak trekking seson, over a hundred flights a day service lukla, and there are thousands of trekkers passing each way every day. Given that most of them will not be carrying their own luggage, but will have either porters or yaks with them, the volume of traffic on the trail can be imagined. It is a circus. Waits of several hours are not uncommon here, as one-way traffic streams across the narrow suspension bridge over the river. Consequently many tea shops and lodges have sprung up... 

Nikon D300, 17-35mm. November 2008