China’s ‘Ice Boy’ has new home and new hope after viral photo sparked flood of donations

Much has changed for Chinese boy Wang Fuman in the 12 months since he became the internet star known as “Ice Boy”.

Now nine years old, Wang shot to fame in January last year after his teacher posted a photograph of him arriving at school with a mop of icicles for hair. The fancy style was the result of the youngster having just trekked for over an hour and 4.5km (2.8 miles) from his home in a mountainous region of southwest China’s Yunnan province in temperatures as low as minus 9 degrees Celsius (16 degrees Fahrenheit).