The actor Julian Sands decided to climb Mount Baldy, located in southern California, but the excursion did not end as planned: He was declared missing following his family lost contact with him..
As revealed by Nathan Capos, corporal of the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department, around 7:30 p.m. on Friday, January 13, a hiker was reported missing in the Baldy Bowl area. “A search team was dispatched, but due to weather conditions, they were removed on Saturday,” the official said.
And he advanced, in dialogue with People: “The search will restart with helicopters and drones, weather permitting.” As reported by ABC 7, simultaneously with the search for the protagonist of The sounds of the silence Another man is being sought, Bob Gregory, a Hawthorne native, who has been missing since Monday. The last time he was seen, he was hiking in the Crystal Lake area of the San Gabriel Mountains.
Gregory’s relatives indicated that following his disappearance last Monday, they are “distressed” and “they fear that he has hurt himself and fallen”. The police, in turn, began the process of tracking his cell phone.
These two searches come following the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department issued a warning to hikers for severe weather conditions. “Over the past four weeks, search and rescue teams have responded to 14 calls in the area,” police said in a statement shared on their Facebook account on Wednesday.
“These rescue missions have been for lost, stranded and/or injured hikers. Unfortunately, during the last 4 weeks, two hikers did not survive following falling and injuring themselves,” the statement added, defining the prevailing weather on the mountain as adverse and extremely dangerous, with strong winds and severe storms.
“The snow has turned to ice, making the hikes extremely dangerous,” the statement said. The truth is that this mountainous area is very popular among hikers and is only an hour’s drive from downtown Los Angeles.
Sands is known for his roles in movies like Warlock, arachnophobia, Goodbye Vegas and the series Smalville, Gotham y The Blacklistamong other.
Two days following Sands was declared missing, Crystal Paula Gonzalez-Landas, known as the “Hiking Queen,” slipped and died in the area. The woman had been documenting her adventure on her Facebook account. The last video that she shared on that social network shows a brightly colored jacket in the middle of the dark and she is heard saying: “It’s time to go. A lot of people came out today.”
González-Landas is not the only tragedy that has occurred in the area in recent times. In 2020, the remains of Sreenivas Mokkapati, a 52-year-old hiker, was found four months following he had climbed Mount Baldy. As reported at the time by the Los Angeles Times, at the time of his disappearance, the mountain was completely covered in snow. A team of 126 people participated in the search for him, but the maneuvers had to be canceled following an officer died following falling from the mountain.
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