Sherpa families angry and fearful eight months on from Everest disaster

Pasang Lhama Sherpa wakes up her five-year-old son from his corner bed in her dimly lit teahouse in Dingboche, north-east Nepal. With only a small cooking stove to warm the room, the pair exhale crisp clouds of condensation as she layers him in clothes to start the day.

Pasang, whose husband, Then Dorje Sherpa, was one of 16 guides killed in an avalanche last April on Mount Everest, is worried about her son’s future.