Actor Julian Sands missing

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.

The search for the missing actor has increased with more people helping in the search for the British star after he was reported missing in California over ...

Several other famous faces replied to his tweet with comments of surprise about the dreadful news. British film producer and close friend Cassian Elwes also tweeted: “I’ve known since Friday that my friend Julian Sands has been missing on mt baldy. A very close family friend who was an adventurer in everything he did. But the Sheriff department’s reveal that federal and state agencies are assisting in the search highlights that efforts to find the actor have increased. The search for missing actor Julian Sands has intensified as federal and state agencies in the USA have joined the mission to find the British actor. The search to find Julian, who was reported missing on Friday 13 January, has been impeded due to reports of avalanches in the search area.

'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.

Sands, who has appeared in films such as Leaving Las Vegas, Warlock and Arachnophobia, was reported missing after failing to return home from a hike in a ...

San Bernardino County Fire Department captain Rodd Mascis said the search for missing hikers was "sadly regular" and could be like finding a "needle in a haystack". The San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department previously urged hikers to "think twice and heed warnings", saying its search and rescue teams had responded to 14 calls on Mount Baldy and in the surrounding area over the last four weeks. Mount Baldy residents noted the "extreme" conditions in the area, which has been experiencing freezing temperatures and bad weather in recent days, but said they would not "rule anything out" in the mission to find Sands. "We are working with state and federal agencies that have cell phone forensics to assist us in pinpointing a location, but so far no new info has been developed," a spokesperson from the department said. Sands, who has appeared in films such as Leaving Las Vegas, Warlock and Arachnophobia, was reported missing after failing to return home from a hike in a mountainous area in California which has seen "extreme" weather conditions in recent days. [pings from the actor's phone](https://news.sky.com/story/julian-sandss-phone-showed-movement-two-days-after-he-went-missing-in-californian-mountains-12790940) appeared to show he had been on the move, heading further into the Baldy Bowl area of the San Gabriel Mountains on the day he was reported missing.

Both national and state officials are now working with the San Bernardino County Sheriff's office, one week after the actor was reported missing.

[Sarah Sands](/topic/sarah-sands), with whom he has a son. Mr Mascis added that the mobile phone pings were a “positive sign” and that “stranger things had happened”, referring to success in the search for Sands. San Bernardino County Fire Department captain Rodd Mascis told PA that the search for missing hikers in the area was “sadly regular” and could be like finding “a needle in a haystack”.