In pursuit of missing actor Julian Sands is a helicopter. Due to the hazardous conditions, the search for a 65-year-old who vanished while climbing in Mt. Baldy, California, is being done by helicopter.Nearly a week after he was reported missing while trekking in the dangerous San Gabriel Mountains of California, where at least two other hikers have already perished this winter, British actor Julian Sands is still missing.According to the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department, the 65-year-old actor is presently being searched for "by helicopter only" since rescue operations on the ground are currently too risky due to the continuous threat of avalanches in the area of Mt. Baldy.Gloria, a department spokesman, said there is no estimated time frame for when the hunt for Sands will conclude.According to the sheriff's department, the Mt. Baldy bowl region where Sands was trekking has been particularly dangerous this winter, with at least two hikers dying there after falling and getting hurt there in the previous month.
According to local media, one of the two hikers who perished was Crystal Paula Gonzalez, an accomplished hiker known to her family and friends as "the hiking queen." Gonzalez, who had previously ascended Mt. Whitney, one of the tallest mountains in the United States, allegedly stumbled and fell more than 500 feet while trekking on January 8 and passed away from her wounds on the mountain.Over the course of the past month, search and rescue teams have responded to more than two dozen different incidents involving lost or hurt hikers in the Mt. Baldy region. This week, authorities issued a warning to hikers of all levels to avoid the mountain during "extremely dangerous" weather conditions.
Sands, a devoted hiker and longtime resident of the Los Angeles region, went missing last Friday at 7:30 p.m. Only his actions on January 13 were revealed by mobile phone pings from days later; the sheriff's office said that it was late on a Friday.The agency reported that initial ground and helicopter searches of one of his potential locations that day turned up no signs of Sands. Sands' mobile phone location data is still being examined further, but "so far, According to the department, there are no viable leads.At this time, Sands' whereabouts following Friday, when he was reported missing, are unknown, according to Huerta. His family has towed his car after it was discovered in the Mt. Baldy region, according to her.
The government announced that "further air searches will be done."Winter storms have battered California, and the weather in the mountains has made it difficult to find missing and hurt hikers, like Sands. On Saturday evening, due to the hazardous weather, rescue teams searching for Sands on the ground had to be dragged down the mountain. Gonzalez, the injured hiker, was unable to be taken down the mountain and to a hospital because of the weather, a medic said. She according to the news source, behind five kids.
The recent storms in California have claimed the lives of more than 21 people, and several more, including a five-year-old kid who was carried away in floodwaters, are still missing.With his wife, the author Eugenia Citkowitz, with whom he shares a son, Sands, who is well-known for his parts in The Killing Fields, A Room with a View, and Naked Lunch, has resided in the Los Angeles region for many years. In addition, he shares two children with Sarah Sands, a former editor of the Evening Standard and Today on BBC Radio, to whom he was married from 1984 to 1987.On social media, several Hollywood actors, authors, and producers have expressed their thoughts for Sands and his family while honouring him as a friend and an inspiration.