Hikers on Saturday discovered human stays in a Southern California mountain space the place British actor Julian Sands disappeared 5 months in the past, authorities stated.
The physique was found round 10am in wilderness close to Mount Baldy.
It was transported to the coroner’s workplace for identification subsequent week, the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Division stated in an announcement.
Sands, an avid hiker and mountaineer, was reported lacking on January 13 after setting out on the height that rises greater than 10,000 ft east of Los Angeles. The area was pounded by extreme storms throughout winter.
On Friday, his household launched its first assertion since Sands’ disappearance.
‘We proceed to carry Julian in our hearts with vivid reminiscences of him as a beautiful father, husband, explorer, lover of the pure world and the humanities, and as an authentic and collaborative performer,’ the assertion stated.
Sands, who is thought for his roles in Oscar-nominated movies together with 1985’s A Room With A View, was reported lacking by his household on January 13 after disappearing throughout a trek within the Mount Baldy space of California’s San Gabriel Mountains.
Search crews have been working tirelessly to find the well-known actor. Their final search mission included over 80 search and rescue volunteers, deputies and employees. Two helicopters, drone crews and aerial searches have been deployed throughout the mission trying in a number of the extra distant areas throughout Mount Baldy, however the lacking actor was not situated
Sands, a 65-year-old British-born actor finest recognized for his position within the 1985 movie ‘A Room With a View,’ is married to journalist Evgenia Citkowitz and has three grownup kids.
Since Sands’ disappearance on January 13, the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Division has carried out eight searches.
Their most up-to-date search mission, on June 17, included greater than 80 volunteers, employees and deputies, however didn’t discover any hint.
Mount Baldy towers above Los Angeles and is roughly 10,064 ft excessive.
The mountain has been described by expert hikers as certainly one of one of many deadliest mountains in the US, and has been reported as one of many worst information for demise and harm within the US, The Los Angeles Times reported.
Since 2020, there have been greater than 100 searches for lacking hikers on Mount Baldy, with six confirmed deaths, in line with the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Division.
Sands was born in 1958 in Yorkshire, northern England, to mom Brenda who raised him and his 4 brothers alone following her divorce.
He was privately educated at Lord Wandsworth School, a boarding faculty within the Hampshire countryside, earlier than making the leap into appearing.
Sands initially landed minor roles, starring alongside Anthony Hopkins within the 1983 TV movie A Married Man, and showing in Privates on Parade, a couple of navy leisure group in Malaysia within the late Nineteen Forties.
His first main manufacturing was 1984’s The Killing Fields, the acclaimed historic drama in regards to the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia.
Sands starred as journalist Jon Swain within the triple-Oscar successful movie.
But it surely was his flip the next yr within the adaptation of the basic E.M. Forster novel A Room With A View that propelled Sands to stardom.
Portraying the philosophical and free-thinking George Emerson, he falls in love with Helena Bonham Carter’s character, Lucy Honeychurch, at a Florentine pensione within the interval drama.
The pair locked lips in a poppy discipline in what is taken into account one of the romantic on-screen kisses of all time.
