Julian Sands: Actor said mountains were 'more unstable' in last interview

Actor Julian Sands, who died successful a California upland range, said successful his past UK interrogation that galore friends had stopped going mountaineering partially due to the fact that it had go excessively dangerous.

The British star's assemblage was recovered past week, six months aft helium went missing.

Speaking to Radio Times precocious past year, helium said: "Pals I utilized to ascent with person stopped going to the mountains".

He said that was "partly due to the fact that they find, with clime change, the stone faces person go overmuch much unstable".

Also, "partly, it's age", helium told the magazine.

Sands, who was 64 astatine the time, said those friends nary longer wanted to dedicate themselves to a climb.

"If you don't truly person the desire, the absorption for climbing a route, if you're not perfectly committed, it becomes overmuch much unsafe and it's a overmuch much deflating experience," helium said.

"Finding people whose institution I bask successful specified stressful and intimate conditions is not easy."

Sands, champion known for the 1985 movie A Room With A View, went missing connected a solo travel to Mount Baldy successful the San Gabriel Mountains, adjacent Los Angeles, connected 13 January.

Wintry conditions hampered the hunt efforts, and hikers recovered quality remains connected 24 June. They were aboriginal identified to beryllium to Sands.

He spoke to Radio Times to beforehand The Willows, a BBC vigor play that was broadcast implicit Christmas.

He said helium knew the risks of being connected mountains, and was often alert of being contiguous successful places wherever radical had mislaid their lives successful the past.

He said: "If you tin woody with unsafe mountains, you tin surely woody with beingness arsenic an histrion - the 2 are rather complementary."