Rescuers battling troublesome winter climate have been looking Thursday for British actor Julian Sands, who went lacking whereas mountain climbing on a California mountain.

Sands, who shot to fame as Helena Bonham Carter’s love curiosity in 1985’s “Room with a View,” disappeared almost a week ago on the 10,000-foot (3,000-meter) Mount San Antonio, just outside of Los Angeles.

Deputies from the San Bernardino Sheriff’s Department began searching for him after the alarm was raised on Friday evening.

Signals from his mobile phone were received throughout the weekend, they said, giving possible clues to his whereabouts, but searches on the ground and from the air proved fruitless.

Much of California has been battered by weeks of atmospheric rivers that have brought heavy precipitation, including deep snow to mountain ranges.

“Because of avalanche risks and trail conditions, the ground crews were pulled off the mountain on Saturday evening,” San Bernardino Sheriff’s Department stated Thursday.

“However, the search continues by helicopter and drones when the climate permits.

“Additional floor searches shall be scheduled when the climate improves, and it’s protected for our rescue crews.”

Sands, 65, is an experienced hiker who has previously described himself as happiest “close to a mountain summit on a glorious cold morning.”

In the early 1990s he hiked by means of the Andes mountain vary, getting caught in a storm above 20,000 toes.

‘Extremely dangerous’

Mount San Antonio, recognized domestically as Mount Baldy, is the best peak within the San Gabriel mountains and a well-liked vacation spot for inhabitants of Los Angeles, however current climate has made it treacherous.

Search and rescue groups from the sheriff’s division have been concerned in additional than a dozen missions on the mountain in the previous couple of weeks.

At least two persons are recognized to have perished, with one girl sliding up to 700 toes down an icy slope, studies stated.

San Bernardino Sheriff’s Department urged individuals to avoid the wilder components of the mountain.

“It is extraordinarily harmful even for the expert hiker. Current climate situations and low cloud protection makes it very troublesome to deploy sources to that space when a hiker goes lacking,” a statement said.

“When we do deploy resources, the weather plays a huge factor on what resources we can use,” it added.

Sands, who grew up in Yorkshire, within the north of England, moved to Los Angeles after his breakout function because the plain-speaking George Emerson within the 1985 adaptation of EM Forster’s novel.

Over his diversified profession, he appeared in movies as various as Frank Marshall’s 1990 spider-themed horror romp “Arachnophobia,” David Cronenberg’s controversial “Naked Lunch” and alcohol-soaked 1995 drama “Leaving Las Vegas,” directed by Mike Figgis and starring Nicolas Cage.

Sands also starred in “Warlock” (1989) and a 1998 adaptation of “The Phantom of the Opera” because the title character.

Movie industry colleagues have taken to Twitter to air their hopes that he will be found safe and well.

“#JulianSands is a wonderful man, husband, father, and friend to so so many,” actor Matthew Modine wrote.

“A mild, sort soul. Keep candles burning for his protected return from the mountain he loves.”

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