Julian Sands, ‘Room With a View’ Actor, Is Missing on Hike in California Mountains - The New York Times

The British histrion Julian Sands, known for his relation successful the critically acclaimed 1986 movie “A Room With a View,” among others, is 1 of 2 missing hikers the authorities are searching for successful the San Gabriel Mountains successful Southern California pursuing a play of dense rainfall and snowfall crossed the area.

Mr. Sands, 65, of North Hollywood, was reported missing connected Friday aft hiking unsocial connected a way connected Mount Baldy, much than 40 miles northeast of Los Angeles, Mara Rodriguez, a spokeswoman for the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department, said connected Thursday. The trails determination are fashionable but besides labeled challenging and strenuous connected hiking websites.

Search efforts had been affected by “trail conditions and the hazard of avalanche,’’ Ms. Rodriguez said.

“However, we proceed to hunt by chopper and drones erstwhile upwind permits,’’ she added.

Elsewhere successful the San Gabriel Mountains, the authorities are searching separately for different missing hiker, Robert Gregory, 61, of Hawthorne, Calif. That hunt is being handled by the Hawthorne Police Department, supported by the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Office San Dimas station.

Mr. Gregory, besides an avid and experienced hiker, was reported missing connected Friday evening by his woman aft helium had not returned that day in the Crystal Lake area. The constabulary said his conveyance was recovered Saturday extracurricular a cafe successful beforehand of a way caput successful the area.

Lt. Louis Serrano of the San Dimas presumption said connected Thursday that hunt and rescue teams were connected the crushed and that aerial patrols were continuing.

Representatives for Mr. Sands did not instantly instrumentality requests for remark connected Thursday.

A watercourse of atmospheric rivers, storms that are constrictive successful signifier and transportation a tremendous magnitude of water, have slammed overmuch of California successful caller weeks, causing flooding, powerfulness outages and wide evacuations. At slightest 19 radical person died.

On Friday, erstwhile Mr. Sands was reported missing, different circular of storms was conscionable opening to expanse crossed Southern California, lasting done the vacation weekend.

By Wednesday, conditions had not improved and the sheriff’s bureau urged hikers to “think doubly and heed warnings,” adding that rescue teams had responded to 14 rescue missions connected Mount Baldy and the surrounding country successful the past 4 weeks.

The rescue missions were for lost, stranded and injured hikers, 2 of whom did not past aft falling and injuring themselves, officials said. The caller storms brought snowfall and crystal to the mountain, and conditions were not favorable for hikers, adjacent those with experience, the authorities added.

Mr. Sands, a British performer who has appeared successful much than 150 films and tv shows, including “Arachnophobia,” “Naked Lunch,” “Warlock” and “Ocean’s Thirteen,” is known to bask the outdoors. He is champion remembered for his starring relation astatine 27 opposite Helena Bonham Carter successful “A Room With a View,” the Oscar-nominated Merchant Ivory adaptation of E.M. Forster’s novel, which often makes lists arsenic 1 of the champion British films of each time.

In an interrogation with The Guardian successful 2020, Mr. Sands said helium was happiest erstwhile adjacent to a upland acme connected a acold greeting and had aspirations of climbing a distant highest successful the Himalayas. He besides described a clip successful the aboriginal 1990s erstwhile helium was caught successful a tempest supra 20,000 feet successful the Andes. “We were each successful a precise atrocious way,” helium said. “Some guys adjacent to america perished; we were lucky.”

In different interrogation that twelvemonth with Thrive Global, a institution started by Arianna Huffington that provides behaviour alteration technology, Mr. Sands said that helium had spent clip successful upland ranges successful North America and Europe.

Mr. Sands said that radical who don’t ascent mountains presume it’s astir a “great heroic sprint” to the acme and an ego.

“But actually, it’s the reverse,” helium said. “It’s astir supplication and sacrifice and humility, erstwhile you spell to these mountains. It’s not truthful overmuch a solemnisation of oneself, but the eradication of one’s aforesaid consciousness. And truthful connected these walks you suffer yourself, you go a vas of vigor successful harmony, hopefully with your environment.”