Ringmo Bridge

The Himalayan Trust built a footbridge on the trail between Junbesi and Ringmo in Solu around 1970, part of the network of bridges, schools and water supplies the Trust put in across the district through the early 1970s. The crossing carries the trail on toward Taksindu and the villages beyond, in hill country cut through by rivers that can be impassable without a bridge.

Sir Edmund Hillary himself is recorded using the bridge years later. Walking with his Sherpa sardar Mingma Tsering from Junbesi toward Ringmo, he wrote in his diary of resting at a spot he remembered from the 1953 Everest expedition before the pair crossed the Ringmo bridge on their way to Taksindu and the village of Manedingma. It is a small, quiet sign of how the Trust's early infrastructure became part of the fabric of daily life in the hills.