SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. — Rescue personnel in California have found a 75-year-old hiker who was lost on the identical snow-covered mountain where actor Julian Sands is missing.
NBC LA captured images of Jin Chung, of North Hollywood, being loaded into an ambulance Tuesday afternoon. He had a leg injury and a few weather-related injuries but was capable of walk with assistance and was taken to a hospital, the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department said. His condition was not immediately known
The Sheriff’s Department launched the search after Chung didn’t return from a hike Sunday on the ten,064-foot Mt. Baldy.
Chung carpooled to the mountain with two others and made plans to satisfy them on the vehicle at 2 p.m., but Chung didn’t return, authorities said.
The sheriff’s department said rescuers unsuccessfully continued trying to find Sands on Mt. Baldy over the weekend.
“Helicopters and drones continued to make use of infrared devices in the course of the search nevertheless, all were negative for any signs of Sands,” the department’s statement said.
Sands, 65, was reported missing Jan. 13 while climbing. Search and rescue crews began on the lookout for him on the best peak within the San Gabriel Mountains, about 40 miles northeast of downtown Los Angeles.
“No evidence of his current location has been discovered. The search will proceed, weather and ground conditions permitting,” a sheriff’s department statement said.
Storms have coated the mountain with heavy snow and ice and searches have been thwarted by the specter of avalanches and foul weather, including powerful winds.
Authorities describe mountain conditions as extremely dangerous. Two hikers have died in recent weeks. One fell a minimum of 500 feet down an icy slope.
Sands starred opposite Helena Bonham Carter within the 1985 British romance from director James Ivory, “A Room With a View.”
He also had major roles in 1989′s “Warlock,” 1990′s “Arachnophobia,” 1991′s “Naked Lunch,” 1993′s “Boxing Helena” and “Leaving Las Vegas” in 1995.
Sands has worked consistently within the a long time since with smaller roles in film and tv.
