British actor Julian Sands, 65, is one of two hikers missing in the San Gabriel Mountains in southern California (USA). The interpreter, who became popular after his appearances in A room with a view (1985) y Warlock (1989), has been wanted by the authorities and by a rescue team since Friday, January 13, when his wife reported him missing, according to a statement from the San Bernardino County Sheriff collected by local media.
“Around 7:30 pm on Friday, January 13, a hiker was reported missing in the Baldy Bowl area,” Nathan Campos, a corporal with the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department, told the magazine. People. “From what I understand, he left sometime that day for a hike and when he didn’t return, his family reported him missing,” Gloria Huerta, a spokeswoman for the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department, told the newspaper. AP agency.
“A search team has been dispatched but due to weather conditions they withdrew on Saturday. There will be helicopters and drones to continue the search if the weather allows it”, added Campos. It is hoped that once the weather and security conditions improve, the rescue teams will be able to continue working.
The actor’s passion for the mountains and nature is known. Julian Sands has said that his happiest moment is always when he is near the top of a mountain “on a glorious cold morning”, as he explained in an interview with the British newspaper The Guardian in 2020. In the same talk, he admitted that his passion for mountaineering has led him to situations in which he feared for his life. “In the early 1990s, in the Andes, when we were caught in a vicious storm above 20,000 feet with three others,” she recalled. “We were all very bad. Some guys close to us perished; we were very lucky ”, said the interpreter then.
Along with the English actor, father of three children and who has lived in Los Angeles for years with his wife, the American writer Evgenia Citkowitz, the authorities are also looking separately for a Hathorne resident named Bob Gregory in the area of Crystal Lake, also located in the San Gabriel Mountains, according to American television ABCNews.
While the search continues, authorities have asked, via the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Official Facebook page, that all hikers—even the most experienced ones—avoid walking and hiking in the Mount Baldy area for high risk of an accident.
