![]() Sands, an avid hiker and longtime resident of the Los Angeles area, was reported missing around 7.30pm last Friday. Search and rescue teams have responded to more than two dozen different incidents of lost or injured hikers in the Mt Baldy area over the past month, with authorities this week warning even experienced hikers to stay away from the mountain during “extremely dangerous” conditions. Authorities said that Gonzalez, who had previously summited Mt Whitney, one of the highest peaks in the United States, slipped and fell more than 500ft while hiking on 8 January, and died of her injuries on the mountain. One of the two hikers who died, identified by local media as Crystal Paula Gonzalez, was an experienced hiker, known to family and friends as “the hiking queen,” CBS News Los Angeles reported. The Mt Baldy bowl area where Sands was hiking has been a deadly one this winter, with at least two hikers killed in the area after falling and injuring themselves in the past month, according to the sheriff’s department. There is currently no timeline for ending the search for Sands, department spokesperson Gloria Huerta said on Friday. The search for the 65-year-old actor is currently being conducted “via helicopter only”, the San Bernardino county sheriff’s department said Friday afternoon, because the risk of avalanches around Mt Baldy has continued to make on-the-ground rescue efforts too dangerous. The search for British actor Julian Sands continues nearly a week after he was reported missing while hiking in a treacherous area of California’s San Gabriel Mountains, where at least two other hikers have already perished this winter. At 42:20 in the video, Paulides wonders why residents of Madeira who are long runners are not going missing, perhaps it is because their genes are not useful for the nefarious purposes of STS. It could be that Madeira doesn't want to scare off tourists, there were 1,5 million of those in 2019, and after the severe covid measures they has in place there, i can imagine they didn't want to jeopardize that income. There isn't much information and the main stream media do not connect the cases. ![]() He was hiking and was not an elite trail runner, and went missing on 1st September 2021. ![]() It concerns 35 year old French guy Benoit Way. With respect to the possible 4th case, Paulides mentions Benoit Way in the video but couldn't find much evidence that his case is part of this missing 411 'new cluster' on the island of Madeira (as he calls it, and he btw says that many missing runners were on islands surrounded by water), but in this online newspaper report there was an article about it. After 10 days of fruitless searching, they called it off. They were hindered by high altitude winds which were keeping flights down. When he went missing, the police launched a massive search. He had some 20 years of running experience at elite level under his belt. Then on 11th December 2022, ultra elite athlete Darren Kay (52) from the UK went missing, while running on a trail. In this case the search went on longer, with Michal's brother actively participating. But other than a ‘ping’ from his phone logged on a telecommunications mast at 8pm, there has been nothing to help searchers at all. He was on holiday in Madeira with his wife and kids, and went running on a planned running route. ![]() Next case concerns experienced mountain trail runner Michal Kozek (35), who is Polish but lives in Switzerland, and who disappeared on 7th July 2021. David Paulides mentions finding it strange that one can not find a lot about this case online. Police conducted a 4 day search, and after finding nothing they gave up. At 2pm on December 29 he sent a friend his georeference, saying he was lost – since then, nothing. The first case concerns fit German runner Jasha Paul Hardenberg, 28, who was running on 29th December in the mountains, when he disappeared without a trace. Paulides says that many cases happen on these kind of Unesco sites, which to him are a red flag. Some 15,000 hectares of the 27,000 hectares large natural park on Madeira was declared an Unesco World Heritage Site, and consists of primary laurel forest. It is known that 3 of the missing men were world level elite runners. ![]()
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