(CNN) -- Pemba Sherpa had already reached Camp 1 on Mount Everest when he heard the loud and chilling bang of the avalanche. He knew his father was behind him on the Khumbu Icefall and ran down the mountain, only to find the devastation of ice, snow and baggage scattered everywhere. "I thought he abandoned his load and ran to safety," he tells me, almost whispering. "But I could not find him amid the commotion at base camp. Then I saw the helicopters, with the bodies on the suspended ropes, and I knew I lost my dad." Ang Tshiring's body was taken to Lukla, a tourist town where most who embark on a trip to Everest Base Camp start out.
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Ang Tshiring, 57, was among the 16 killed in this year's Mount Everest avalanche
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In Nepal's Thame Valley, villagers have few employment options other than to work in the climbing industry
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For families of deceased, sadness now eclipsed by spiritual duty
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