British actor Julian Sands went missing after he went hiking in the San Gabriel Mountains in California on Friday, the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department said, according to The Guardian on Thursday.

The 65-year-old actor, known for his roles in the films “A Room with a View”, “The Killing Fields” and “Naked Dinner”, lives in Hollywood.

Rescuers were searching for a man lost in the Baldy Bowl area of ​​Baldy Mountain, popular with mountain climbers and skiers, after receiving a report of a missing hiker at 7:00 p.m. Friday night, the sheriff’s department said. spokesman Nathan Campos.

Later on Wednesday afternoon, law enforcement officers recognized the name of the missing man.

Harsh winter weather in California has complicated searches in the Mount Baldy area. Rescue teams were “withdrawn from the mountain on Saturday night for their safety” and the search continued “using a drone and a helicopter when the weather permitted,” Campos said.

There is a serious threat of avalanches in the area, so the authorities recommend that people stay away from it.

“It is extremely dangerous and difficult for experienced hikers to pass,” Campos said.

Rescuers plan to resume searching the site when weather conditions improve, he added. Authorities are still searching for a missing man named Bob Gregory of Hawthorne, California. He was reported missing Monday in the San Gabriel Mountains, ABC News reported.

Julian Sands, who grew up in Yorkshire, has had a challenging film career spanning decades, appearing in dozens of film and television roles. For several years, the actor has lived in the Los Angeles area with his wife, the writer Evgenia Tsitkovits. Sands has three children.

In an interview with The Guardian in 2018, Sands spoke about his passion for mountaineering and the importance of new adventures as he gets older.

In another 2020 interview, he described himself as being happiest when he’s “near the top of the mountain on a beautiful cold morning.”

In 2020, Sands revealed that the closest he came to death was “in the early 1990s in the Andes, when he and three others were caught in a terrible storm at over 6,000 meters. We were all very stupid. Some guys near us died; we are lucky.” (Agerpress)

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