Matter of perspective, the "shrinking effect" as things get further away, half the equation seems to be left out here. That is everything shrinks equally, all edges all angle. Not just top to bottom.
As the top of the lamp comes down the bottom goes up equally the father away it gets. As does the side to side perspective of the shrinking sidewalk or train track.
If you are 6' tall, a wall across the street is 4' high, a lamp post 10' tall 1/2 mile down the street, the 4' high wall will never obscure your sight of the lamp. Nor will the wall cast a shadow that reaches you and definitely not onto the building that's behind you.
You could easily reproduced this effect on any street with similar obstacles, or on a beach with cliffs behind you at sunset.
The idea that light bends has been thoroughly tested and experimented with. The results are conclusive and well documented of the where, when and how light bends. I'm pretty sure there's no experiments that prove there are light bending effects on the sun that causes shadows to be casting that oppose the laws of physics when it pertains to the sun, or any light source for that matter. You have to have something like maybe water that distorts the reflective light, or image of a solid object. This is simply NOT what we're seeing with the sun shins on an object that casts a shadow on a taller object behind it as in the OP Everest video shows.