Efforts to locate the actor Julian Sands, more than five months after he went missing while hiking in California, are to be scaled back, the San Bernardino county sheriff’s office has reported.
In a statement on Monday, the department said the missing person case for Sands remains open and that search efforts will continue in a “limited capacity”.
In January his brother, Nick Sands, told the Craven Herald that although “he has not yet been declared missing, presumed dead, but I know in my heart that he has gone.”
Sands, an experienced mountaineer and climber, was reported missing on 13 January after failing to return from a solo hike in the Mount Baldy area of the San Gabriel mountains.