Julian Sands Still Missing After More Than a Week Passes - News ...

Avalanche risks have halted search efforts on the ground, but rescuers are still scanning the area by helicopter, hoping for the best.

British acting veteran Julian Sands was reported missing on Jan. 13, and as more than a week passes, the search to locate him continues on. That day, Sands had ventured on a hike in the Baldy Bowl area of the Southern California mountains, but when he failed to return, his family reported him as missing. Search and rescue teams have been combing the area ever since, though inclement weather and other conditions have affected their efforts.

That continues heading into this weekend, as icy conditions and the risk of avalanches have halted rescue efforts on the ground. For now, they’re searching by helicopter, hoping to find any trace of the actor. At this point, all investigators have been able to find has been Sands’ car, located near the area where he’d been reported missing. Additional efforts to locate him by pinging his cell phone have also been made but have not turned up anything fruitful as of yet.

“There has been no new update or witness information about his whereabouts since then,” the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department’s Public Information Officer, Gloria Huerta, told BBC News on Friday. “The air search is being resumed, but we have not been able to resume a ground search yet due to icy conditions and a threat of avalanches.”

While family, friends, and fans are still praying for the 65-year-old and hoping for the best, the odds of finding him alive and well seem to diminish with each passing day. As of now, police have stated that there hasn’t been a “hard deadline” set to end the search and rescue operations. Meanwhile, police also say they’ve responded to more than a dozen other distress calls in the Mount Baldy area over the past four weeks alone following heavy storms in the area. This includes continued efforts to find another hiker who’d gone missing days after Sands, while one woman died last week after tumbling down Mount Baldy.

“It is extremely dangerous and even experienced hikers are getting in trouble,” a police statement said of the area.

A father of three, Sands has been living in Los Angeles with his wife, though he hails from England. The actor has appeared in many different films over the years, such as The Killing Fields, Warlock, and Leaving Las Vegas, as well as TV shows like Smallville and Banshee. He had more recently appeared in the films Benediction, The Survivalist, and The Ghosts of Monday.

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