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The seek for British-born movie star Julian Sands, finest identified for his position in A Room with a View, continues for a sixth day within the snow-covered mountains of Southern California with no signal of the 65-year-old actor.
The performer was reported lacking on Friday, January 13, after he had gone mountaineering alone within the Baldy Bowl space of ​​the San Gabriel Mountains, about 80 kilometers northeast of Los Angeles, the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Division stated.
A search was instantly initiated however floor groups have been pulled out on Saturday night as a result of avalanche dangers and poor path situations, sheriff’s division spokeswoman Mara Rodriguez stated.
Intermittent aerial searches by helicopter and drone plane have continued, nonetheless, and authorities deliberate to renew a floor search as soon as situations enable, she stated.
“We had an air crew up as we speak and there have been no indicators of Mr. Sands,” Rodriguez informed Reuters by electronic mail.
The Baldy Bowl, a big sloping space under the crest of the Mount Baldy ski space, is a well-liked vacation spot for skiers, climbers and backpackers.
Rodriguez stated Sands was believed to be an skilled hiker.
Telephone alerts detected on Sunday confirmed Sands was then heading to the Mount Baldy space, apparently the most recent indication he was nonetheless on the transfer.
Subsequent makes an attempt to “ping” his cellphone failed “because of the lack of cell service and probably cellular phone energy failure”, the division stated in an replace posted on Thursday.
A “delayed ping” from Sands’ cellphone’s working system, generated on Saturday, offered a doable location on a path to the Mount Baldy summit, however checks of that spot by floor and helicopter groups have been of no avail, the division stated.
Authorities warned extreme winter climate following weeks of storms that dumped heavy snow in California mountains have made the Baldy space harmful for outside recreation.
Previously 4 weeks, sheriff search groups have carried out 14 rescue missions on Mount Baldy and surrounding areas for misplaced or stranded hikers, two of whom perished after falling or injuring themselves, the company stated.
Sands’ Los Angeles-based consultant couldn’t instantly be reached for remark.
Born in England, Sands moved to California within the 1980s to pursue a Hollywood profession after the success of the 1985 movie A Room with a View, a interval romance that co-starred Helena Bonham Carter.
He additionally starred because the son of Devil within the 1989 supernatural thriller Warlock and its sequel Warlock: The Armageddon.
He performed the title position within the 1998 movie model of The Phantom of the Opera and starred reverse martial arts performer Jackie Chan within the 2003 action-comedy The Medallion.
– AAP
