Family’s desperate DNA search for son missing in Nepal
Australian man Tyronne White, 44, has now been missing in Nepal for more than two weeks since the first Earthquake.
His family is travelling to where Mr White was last seen alive with samples of his DNA.
They are fearing the worst because it is a village wiped out by a huge landslide.
"I'm just worried that he's going to stay on the missing list forever," Ms White told 7News.
"They've had more Earth tremors, they had to pull everybody out, it just got worse."
When the magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck on April 25, Tyronne was in the village of Langtang.
The tiny, remote community was destroyed in the disaster, with dozens of lodges and hostels flattened.
Hundreds of trekkers were killed, and the search effort there has been next to impossible.
The fear is that Tyronne is still buried in the rubble.
On Wednesday his father and brother will fly to Nepal to search for themselves, after visiting Federal Police in Adelaide first.
"He's flying to Adelaide today, he's taken his DNA with him, and the Federal Police are going to call on him in Adelaide," Ms White said.
The family has criticised Foreign Affairs, but Minister Julie Bishop said her department had been "providing assistance to the man's family in Australia, and will continue to do so when family members travel to Nepal".
Tyronne White had been travelling for three years, and his last call home was April 7 - mum's birthday.
"I hold out a glimmer of hope for him but it's just been too long," Mr White's mother said.
