Four young men in Nepal are believed to be the only West Australians who have not contacted family since a deadly 7.8-magnitude earthquake at the weekend.
Fremantle-based Rin Hutcheson and Jalada Wilson, both 18, and Raoul Poncin, 19, have not been heard from since last Tuesday when they were hiking in Lampang National Park.
Raoul's father Freddy Poncin posted on Facebook on Monday that a man from Kathmandu trekking company Dal Bhat Power, who supplied the trio with equipment, was expecting them to return by mid-week.
But it is also sending people to try to find them and other trekkers in the region.
Jalada's mother Ida was scheduled to arrive in Kathmandu on Tuesday to help search for the teens.
Victoria Park university student Mitch Noga, 21, was registered as missing on a Red Cross website by his mother Sheryl on Tuesday.
Mr Noga's last known location was Nepal's second largest city, Pokhara, on April 19.
The quake was the worst to hit Nepal in 81 years, killing more than 4300 people and injuring a further 7953.
Rescue efforts have been hampered by powerful aftershocks, including a 6.7-magnitude tremor that struck on Sunday.
Perth man Ronald Rouwenhorst told AAP he was pinned inside his Kathmandu hotel bathtub when the earthquake struck and thought he was going to die.
"My wife ran in and we couldn't stand - I was lying on my back in the bath, she was on the floor next to it," Mr Rouwenhorst said.
"We just closed the door to the bathroom and really thought that was the end."
Fellow WA couple Geoff and Sue Roberts, who were in the same hotel, said they ran downstairs as the building swayed and had to dodge housekeeping trolleys in the hallway, which were smashing into walls.
It has taken days for dozens of West Australians to tell loved ones back home they are safe because of downed communications in the country.
Blake Penson, 34, called his parents in Perth with a satellite phone from Mount Everest Camp 2 soon after the first tremor struck.
Lisa Anne Mirtsopoulos, 45, and Angus McDougal Caithness, 36, were reported by their tour companies as being safe.
Ballantyne Paige Forder, 22, Callumn Shally, 21, Shannen Wynne, 20, Brooke O'Keefe, 31, and Karen Lee Jury, 44, all used social media to tell people they were alive.
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