Actor Julian Sands missing

Search and rescue teams have looked for him, but their efforts have been called off because a series of storms has created adverse trail conditions and ...

Sands, 65, was reported missing during a hiking trip in the Baldy Bowl area of the San Gabriel mountains on Friday, as searches by local authorities continue by ...

From 1984 to 1987 Sands was married to future Evening Standard and Today editor Sarah Sands, with whom he has a son. Ms Coyne, who works at the Mount Baldy ski resort, said the weather conditions were “typical” for the time of year. The spokesman added that there was “no hard deadline” for abandoning search efforts and “no date set”. “We will schedule another ground search when the weather improves, and it is safe for our ground crews,” a spokesman from the department told the PA news agency. The San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department previously said that phone pings showed Sands to be heading to the Mount Baldy area two days after he was first reported missing. The phone belonging to British actor Julian Sands appears to show he was on the move heading into a mountainous area in southern California on the day he was reported missing.

Search for 65-year-old, who went missing while hiking in Mt Baldy, California, being conducted by air due to hazardous weather.

Weather conditions also [inhibited the efforts to evacuate Gonzalez](https://www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/news/mother-of-four-falls-more-than-500-feet-to-her-death-at-mt-baldy/), the injured hiker, off the mountain to a hospital, a medic told CBS News Los Angeles. [buffeted by winter storms,](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jan/16/california-weather-rainstorms-deadly-atmospheric-river) weather conditions in the mountain have inhibited attempts to assist missing and injured hikers, including Sands. At this point, there is no data that indicates Sands’ whereabouts after Friday, the day he was reported missing, Huerta said. Further analysis of Sands’ cell phone location data is ongoing, but, “Thus far, no workable leads have been developed”, the department said. One of the two hikers who died, identified by local media as Crystal Paula Gonzalez, was an experienced hiker, known to family and friends as “the hiking queen,” CBS News Los Angeles reported. Sands, an avid hiker and longtime resident of the Los Angeles area, was reported missing around 7.30pm last Friday.

One week after an actor went missing on a treacherous mountain near Los Angeles, search-and-rescue crews are holding out hope that his mountaineering ...

"They're not ready," Huerta said, saying it's been a harrowing time for those who love the actor. Meanwhile the search continues for Sands, who lives in North Hollywood. Though just an hour outside of sunny Los Angeles, the 10,064-foot (4,193 meters) mountain is often covered in snow and ice in the winter and has been the site of many deaths and accidents over the years. Julian Sands, best known for his work in “A Room With a View” and “Warlock,” went missing on Mount Baldy on Jan. "He had severe lacerations on his face was airlifted off the mountain." The search for the 65-year-old British actor began that day and has continued every day since, turning up no sign of him.

'A Room with a View' star is thought to have been on move two days after he was reported missing.

Due to the high winds, the snow has turned to ice making hiking extremely dangerous. Sands’ three adult children have joined rescue teams in search of their father. [Julian Sands is the latest. He was thought to have been somewhere on the popular Baldy Bowl Trail, which climbs 3,900 feet over 4.5 miles to the highest summit in the San Gabriel Mountains. In recent years, several experienced hikers have died due to Mount Baldy’s icy terrain. [Julian Sands](https://www.independent.co.uk/topic/julian-sands), using mobile phone forensics to help pinpoint the location of the [British](https://www.independent.co.uk/topic/british) actor. [Julian Sands, the prolific star of Arachnophobia, missing in California](https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/julian-sands-who-missing-movies-b2265219.html) The involvement of federal and state agencies marks a step up in the search for Sands – which is to continue via helicopter only for now. In a statement shared exclusively with The Independent, a friend of Sands described him as “a Byronesque romantic and an adventurer who is drawn to the extremes of nature”. The phone belonging to missing actor Julian Sands appears to show he was on the move heading into a mountainous area in southern California on the day he was reported missing. [images sent from Sands to his grandson Billy in September](https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/julian-sands-pictures-photos-missing-mountain-b2265578.html), which show the father-of-three mountaineering. The search has been ramped up as the officials are using mobile phone forensics to help pinpoint the location of the actor.

Celebrities and filmmakers including Jon Cryer, Matthew Modine and Frank Marshall shared their hopes and prayers for the safe return of actor Julian Sands, ...

["Ocean's 13,"](https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/ryan-gosling-could-newest-addition-upcoming-oceans-eleven-prequel-margot-robbie) "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo," "Boxing Helena" and "Medallion." [Frank Marshall](https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/frank-marshall-spills-secrets-from-back-to-the-future-raiders-of-the-lost-ark-others), who directed Sands in the 1990 horror comedy "Arachnophobia," shared, "Hope and thoughts going out to the family of my dear friend and wonderful actor, Julian Sands, who is missing on Mt. "A wonderfully talented and unique man and a delightful, generous friend. Julian has the soul of a poet and he shares that unique curiosity of those great adventurers from the past." Awful news." "#JulianSands is a wonderful man, husband, father, and friend to so so many," Modine tweeted. "It was very easy for me to befriend him because Julian is so charming and bright. A friend and an inspiration. Let's all pray for a miracle." I’m so sorry for his family and friends going through this." Life is fleeting and precious." He continued, "I’m devastated.