Amid the search for loved ones in Bidur, the discovery of treasured items – clothes, daily goods and beloved animals – offers a brief respite from the disaster.

About 180 people have been killed and 1,400 are missing, with numbers expected to rise significantly.

Hospitals in Nepal’s capital are teeming with families of the missing, as they pore over the lists of survivors rescued from the country’s deadliest natural disaster since the…