Authorities recovered human stays Saturday within the Mt. Baldy wilderness close to the search space for actor Julian Sands, who has been lacking for greater than 5 months.
Hikers round Mt. Baldy found a physique round 10 a.m. and notified authorities, in keeping with an announcement from the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Division.
The physique was transported from the wilderness to the county coroner’s workplace for formal identification this week, the assertion mentioned. No different particulars have been out there.
Sands, a British actor who appeared in “Room With a View,” “Warlock” and “The Killing Fields,” has been lacking since Jan. 13.
Final weekend, the Sheriff’s Division restarted its seek for Sands, with greater than 80 volunteers, deputies and different sheriff’s workers combing the Mt. Baldy wilderness. Regardless of utilizing two helicopters and a drone group, the group was not capable of find the 65-year-old.
Sands’ household mentioned earlier this week that they have been “very grateful” to all those that had helped to find him.
“We proceed to carry Julian in our hearts with vibrant recollections of him as a beautiful father, husband, explorer, lover of the pure world and the humanities, and as an unique and collaborative performer,” the household mentioned in an announcement shared by the Sheriff’s Division.
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Sands, an avid hiker and mountaineer, instructed the Guardian in 2020 that he was happiest when “near a mountain summit on an excellent chilly morning.” He additionally instructed the publication that his most treacherous expertise occurred throughout a mountaineering expedition within the Andes above 20,000 ft elevation. Sands mentioned a storm got here in, and “some guys near us perished.”
Within the months since Sands was reported lacking, the Sheriff’s Division accomplished eight aerial and floor searches. However extreme storms within the first few months of this yr dumped a number of ft of snow onto Mt. Baldy and hampered the search effort.
Though temperatures have warmed in latest weeks, authorities mentioned this week that “excessive alpine situations” continued to stop them from accessing a number of components of Mt. Baldy.
Instances workers author Alexandra Del Rosario contributed to this report.
This story initially appeared in Los Angeles Instances.
