Authorities recovered human remains Saturday in the Mt. Baldy wilderness close to the search space for actor Julian Sands, who has been missing for greater than 5 months.
Hikers round Mt. Baldy found a physique round 10 a.m. and notified authorities, based on a press release from the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department.
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 obtainable.
Sands, a British actor who appeared in “Room With a View,” “Warlock” and “The Killing Fields,” has been missing since Jan. 13.
Last weekend, the Sheriff’s Department restarted its search for Sands, with greater than 80 volunteers, deputies and different sheriff’s employees combing the Mt. Baldy wilderness. Despite utilizing two helicopters and a drone crew, the crew was not in a position to 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 continue to hold Julian in our hearts with bright memories of him as a wonderful father, husband, explorer, lover of the natural world and the arts, and as an original and collaborative performer,” the household mentioned in a press release shared by the Sheriff’s Department.
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Sands, an avid hiker and mountaineer, advised the Guardian in 2020 that he was happiest when “close to a mountain summit on a glorious cold morning.” He additionally advised the publication that his most treacherous expertise occurred throughout a mountaineering expedition in the Andes above 20,000 ft elevation. Sands mentioned a storm got here in, and “some guys close to us perished.”
In the months since Sands was reported missing, the Sheriff’s Department accomplished eight aerial and floor searches. But extreme storms in the primary few months of this 12 months dumped a number of ft of snow onto Mt. Baldy and hampered the search effort.
Although temperatures have warmed in current weeks, authorities mentioned this week that “extreme alpine conditions” continued to forestall them from accessing a number of elements of Mt. Baldy.
Times employees author Alexandra Del Rosario contributed to this report.
This story initially appeared in Los Angeles Times.
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