Room With a View actor Julian Sands is missing hiking in the California mountains

By Wednesday, conditions had not improved and The sheriff’s office urged hikers “Think twice and listen to the warnings,” he said, adding that rescue teams have responded to 14 rescue missions in Mount Baldy and the surrounding area in the past four weeks.

Rescue missions were for missing and injured hikers who were stranded, officials said, two of whom did not survive after falling and injuring themselves. Recent storms brought snow and ice to the mountain, authorities added, and conditions were not conducive to hikers, even experienced ones.

A British entertainer who has appeared in over 150 films and TV shows, including “Arachnophobia,” “Naked Lunch,” “Warlock,” and “Ocean’s Thirteen,” Mr. Sands is known to enjoy the outdoors. He is best remembered for his starring role at the age of 27 opposite Helena Bonham Carter in A Room With a View, Merchant Ivory’s Academy Award-nominated adaptation of E.M. Forster’s novel, which often makes lists as one of the best British films of all time.

in an interview with The Guardian in 2020Mr. Sands said he was happiest when he was close to a mountain peak on a cool morning and had aspirations of climbing a remote peak in the Himalayas. He also described a period in the early 1990s when he was caught in a storm at over 20,000 feet in the Andes. “We were all in very bad shape,” he said. “Some of the men close to us died; we were lucky.”

In another interview that year With Thrive GlobalMr. Sands said he has spent time in mountain ranges in North America and Europe.

Mr. Sands said that people who don’t climb mountains assume it’s about the “great heroic enemy” of the summit and the ego.

“But in reality, the opposite is true,” he said. “It’s about prayer, sacrifice, and humility when you go to these mountains. It’s less self-celebration than self-conscious annihilation. And so you lose yourself in these walks, and you become a vessel of energy in harmony and, hopefully, aligned with your environment.”