Julian Sands: Human stays present in California mountains confirmed to be these of British actor

Human stays present in a California mountain space are these of British actor Julian Sands, the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department has confirmed.

It is greater than 5 months for the reason that 65-year-old was reported lacking within the Mount Baldy area of the San Gabriel mountains.

Hikers found the remains on Saturday morning, with a coroner now positively figuring out them as belonging to Sands.

An announcement launched by the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department on Tuesday mentioned: “The identification process for the body located on Mt Baldy on 24 June, 2023, has been completed and was positively identified as 65-year-old Julian Sands of North Hollywood.

“The method of demise continues to be beneath investigation, pending additional take a look at outcomes.

“We would like to extend our gratitude to all the volunteers that worked tirelessly to try to locate Mr Sands.”

Sands, a eager hiker and mountaineer, was reported lacking on 13 January after he failed to return from a trek in the area.

The actor’s household launched a press release by way of the sheriff’s division, by which they mentioned: “We are deeply grateful to the search teams and co-ordinators who have worked tirelessly to find Julian.

“We proceed to carry Julian in our hearts with vivid reminiscences of him as an exquisite father, husband, explorer, lover of the pure world and the humanities, and as an authentic and collaborative performer.”

The Yorkshire-born actor was finest identified for his roles in movies together with A Room With A View, Arachnophobia, Leaving Las Vegas and Warlock, in addition to TV appearances in 24, Smallville and Banshee.

In latest years, he had appeared in one-man stage exhibits reciting the poetry of Harold Pinter, John Keats and Percy Shelley.

Giving a newspaper interview in 2020, Sands mentioned he was happiest when he was “close to a mountain summit on a glorious cold morning”.

He additionally recalled a brush with demise throughout a climb within the Andes within the early Nineteen Nineties when he bought caught in a storm above 20,000 ft with three others.

“We were all in a very bad way,” he instructed The Guardian. “Some guys close to us perished. We were lucky.”

In a 2020 interview with Thrive Global, Sands mentioned climbing was not about ego or a “great heroic sprint for the summit”.

Instead, it was about “supplication and sacrifice and humility”.

He added: “It’s not so much a celebration of oneself but the eradication of one’s self consciousness.

“And so on these walks you lose your self, you develop into a vessel of power in concord hopefully together with your atmosphere.”

Sands was born in Yorkshire, the center youngster of 5 brothers raised by a single mom.

He had been married since 1990 to journalist Evgenia Citkowitz, with whom he had two grownup daughters.

Prior to that, between 1984 and 1987, he was married to writer and journalist Sarah Harvey, with whom he had a son.