Julian Sands, 65, named as hiker who went missing in the San Gabriel Mountains - Daily Mail

British histrion and 'A Room with a View' prima Julian Sands has been named arsenic 1 of 2 missing hikers successful California's San Gabriel Mountains. 

Sands, 65, was past seen successful the Mount Baldy country connected Friday evening and his household person heard from him since.

According to the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department, 'severe upwind connected the upland has been difficult' and aerial resources are limited, ABC 7 reported.

Sands is known for his roles successful respective films, including the 1985 diagnostic 'A Room with a View,' 'Warlock,' and 'Leaving Las Vegas.'

It is unclear wherefore Sands was successful the country and if helium had been hiking unsocial oregon with different person.

Father-of-three Julian Sands has been joined twice.

His archetypal marriage, from 1984 to 1987, was to writer Sarah Sands, who went connected to edit publications including the Sunday Telegraph and London’s Evening Standard, and BBC Radio 4’s influential Today programme. The mates person a son, Henry.

The histrion besides has 2 daughters with the writer Evgenia Citkowitz, who helium joined successful 1990.

Meanwhile, a abstracted hunt is ongoing for different hiker, Bob Gregory of Hawthorne, successful the Crystal Lake country of the upland range.

Gregory's household told the outlet helium went missing connected Monday and that they are 'distraught' and 'fear helium whitethorn person wounded himself and fallen.'

His loved one's added that constabulary are successful the process of tracing his compartment phone, portion hunt teams person combed the country connected the crushed and from the aerial connected Tuesday.

Air unit efforts were constricted connected Wednesday owed to icy conditions connected the pugnacious terrain of the scope which is located successful bluish Los Angeles County and occidental San Bernardino County.

In a station to Instagram, the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department said that wintertime upwind connected Mt Baldy tin marque for 'dangerous conditions' and person urged hikers to deliberation doubly earlier traversing the area.

Over the past 4 weeks, hunt and rescue teams from the section person responded to 14 rescue missions connected Mt Baldy and successful the surrounding area. 

The Sheriff's section said that astir rescue missions person been for 'lost, stranded and/or injured hikers.'

'Unfortunately, during these past 4 weeks, 2 hikers did not past aft falling and injuring themselves,' they said.

'Please cognize the existent conditions connected Mt Baldy are adverse and highly dangerous. 

'Due to the precocious winds, the snowfall has turned to crystal making hiking highly dangerous.'

The treacherous conditions mean hunt and rescue efforts person been 'hampered by mediocre weather' and the likelihood of 'dangerous avalanche conditions.'

'The caller storms that brought the snowfall and crystal conditions are not favorable for hikers, adjacent those that consciousness they person a precocious level of experience,' authorities said.

The Sheriff's Department has pleaded with visitors to travel elemental tips to enactment safe. 

These include: Following all posted informing signs, looking astatine upwind conditions (both existent and forecasted) for the area, making definite you person due gear, grooming and are decently prepared for alpine conditions (crampons, crystal axe, due clothing), taking a hiking partner, taking a tracking oregon GPS instrumentality specified arsenic a SPOT Device oregon INREACH Device, making definite each compartment phone's are afloat charged and to bring a charged other powerfulness battalion for it.

They person besides told visitors to fto idiosyncratic cognize wherever and erstwhile they are going, what clip they volition beryllium backmost and 'most importantly' not to spell if determination is immoderate hesitation astir the terrain.