British actor Julian Sands, known for shows like 24 and movies like A Room with a View and Arachnophobia, travels the Mount Baldy area of California to the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Office. It has been reported missing since last Friday while hiking.
Sands is reported missing at 7am.
Gloria Huerta, a spokeswoman for the station, told CNN Wednesday.
CNN reached out to Sands officials for comment.
On Thursday, Mara Rodriguez, a spokeswoman for the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department, told CNN that a search for Sands is underway, but it’s still not safe to search on foot. “There is currently no undersea search. The situation is too dangerous to send a search and rescue team to the mountain,” Rodriguez said.
The sheriff’s office conducted an aerial search Thursday morning using helicopters and drones, but the search has so far been unsuccessful.
Authorities say they do not know when they will be able to search on foot, and that it all depends on conditions in the mountains.
I also don’t know if I can find Sans alive.
“Nothing off the table. But of course the situation there is very extreme,” Rodriguez said.
His cell phone pings on Jan. 15 led officials to believe Sands went missing near Mount Baldi.
In a statement released Thursday, the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department said, “Additional phone pings from the cell phone company were attempted, but due to a lack of cell service and possibly a loss of power to the cell phone. I failed.
Mount Baldi is located in the San He Gabriel Mountains in Bernardino County. On Wednesday, Huerta said a search and rescue team had been searching for Sands in the mountains, but bad weather and the threat of an avalanche had forced rescuers to call off the search effort. Huerta added that other resources were limited due to the weather on Mount Baldi.
The San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department recently warned hikers not to visit Mount Baldi, which continues to be dangerous due to high winds and ice.
In a Facebook post, officials said search and rescue teams had responded to 14 rescue operations in Mount Baldi and the surrounding area in the past four weeks.
“These rescue missions were for missing, stranded, and/or injured hikers. “Unfortunately, two hikers didn’t make it out alive after falling and being injured in the last four weeks,” the post said.
Sand’s other work includes films such as The Killing Fields and Leaving Las Vegas, and television shows such as Smallville.
His recent work includes a recurring role in the Netflix television series What/If.