A 57-year-old yoga instructor from Augusta remains unaccounted for after the devastating earthquake that struck Nepal over the weekend.
Dawn Habash was on a trek through Langtang National Park when the quake hit.
Meantime, several other Maine families with loved ones in the area have gotten word that their loved ones are safe.
The devastating quake is now being blamed for more than 4,200 deaths.
Habash left in November on a six-month trip to South Asia. She has trekked in Nepal several times before and decided to squeeze in another quick visit before her April 29 flight out of the region.
"It's really hard to be in the complete unknown," says Khalid Habash, who owns the Blue Lobster Gift Shop in Portland.
He says his mom is an experienced trekker. He says he last spoke with her on April 17, the day before she set off on an eight to ten day trek through the national park about 20 miles north of Kathmandu.
"Trekking in Nepal ... you're not exactly in easy access for communication anyway, regardless of an earthquake," Khalid Habash says. "She could be totally fine and just out of the way of communicating. Or she could not be. And that's what's a little worrisome."
Habash has spent the past two days talking to reporters in an effort to get his mom's name out there. He hopes getting a photo of her on CNN will catch the eye of anyone who may have traveled with her recently. Khalid Habash says both he and his sister have trekked in the same area their mother was headed.
"Some villages possibly got wiped out by a landslide," he says. "Some didn't. I'm not going to speculate. I don't want to assume anything."
Habash says lots of people have been praying for his mother's well being. Other Maine families, meantime, had their prayers answered in the hours after the 7.8 magnitude earthquake.
"She called us Saturday morning at about 6:30 to tell us she was all right and that they'd had a massive earthquake," says Steve Hudson, whose daughter Alison, 28, is a documentary filmmaker. She has been in Nepal since January, working on a film about the lives of Sherpa mountaineering guides. Father and daughter are from Southwest Harbor.
"She had just come down from the mountains," Hudson says. "She had hiked out from Everest base camp area. So she had just gotten back to Kathmandu, hadn't been there many hours before the earthquake hit. She got up and ran to her doorway and stood in that, until the tremors stopped. Then she grabbed her pack and left the building. The damage was quite severe. I don't know about collapsed buildings. But certainly lots and lots of people in the street, not going in buildings, staying outside because of the risk of additional shocks."
Meantime, three other Mainers who were in Nepal when the earthquake hit have also been accounted for.