Missing
Carl Herbert Landers
Landers, approximately 1999
Date and time person was reported missing : 05/22/1999
Missing location (approx) :
Siskiyou County, California
Missing classification : Lost/Injured Missing
Gender : Male
Ethnicity :
White
DOB : 08/26/1929 (91)
Age at the time of disappearance: 69 years old
Height / Weight : 5'9, 150 pounds
Description, clothing, jewerly and more : Two or three layers of clothing, including a rust-colored coat, ski pants and hiking boots with crampons.
Distinguishing characteristics, birthmarks, tattoos
: Caucasian male. Brown hair, blue eyes.
Information on the case from local sources, may or may not be correct : Landers was last seen near Lake Helen in Siskiyou County, California on May 22, 1999. He planned to climb Mount Shasta and was carrying a backpack full of food and water. He complained of feeling ill and left camp at 9:00 a.m., ahead of his two climbing partners, to get a head start. He has never been heard from again.
Landers is an experienced hiker, mountain climber and distance runner, and was in good physical shape in 1999. An extensive search of the mountain turned up no sign of him.
Landers lived in Orinda, California at the time of his disappearance, and had formerly served on the town's school board. His case remains unsolved.
Other information and links : ncy
Siskiyou County Sheriff's Department
530-841-2900
September 2021 updates and sources
California Attorney General's Office
The San Francisco Chronicle
The Contra Costa Times
October 12, 2004. May 27, 2009; .
Interactive Missing Person Search Map
