Groping On Japaneese Train

Ledge Hike in the Valley, in the Dolomites

Ledge Hike the Valley, in the Dolomites

The photo on the left was taken on the final plateau of the Valley. At the top you can see the caves that housed the command ranks of the Alpine

When I was 38 years, ie in 1973, during a summer holiday in August in Dobbiaco, then made with the biggest of my children, Paul, then twelve years old, an excursion to the Three Peaks. Leave the car on the forecourt Auronzo Hut, we walked along the path that runs to the base of the Tre Cime Lavaredo until you reach the Refuge, at the foot of Monte Paterno. This is one of the places where it was bitterly fought the First World War in the Dolomites. In fact, it is crossed by several tunnels dug into the rock from the Alpine-stock of offense and defense throughout the area and still see the remains of those who were trenches, barracks and trenches on the rocks. Leaving the hut Lavaredo we entered into a silent valley, rough, a ghostly landscape, without a trace of green. At the end of the path that brought us into the area behind the Monte Paterno, arrived on a plateau surrounded by cliffs and steep, in the shape of the basin. Here we were attracted by a stele erected after the First World War in memory of the Alpine overwhelmed and killed by avalanches on the sides and above the plateau were clearly visible remains of military fortifications that we went now exploring. We noticed that on the plateau the ground was largely covered with rusty cans and cans discarded by climbers out of the trenches above, obviously after having consumed the contents, and to be rolled along the steep walls. The discovery of remnants, still the war, surviving for nearly sixty years, as well as having found a cave when a troop command again with the plaque on the rock side and having walked in those trenches that were there shock deeply because we realized how much had been suffering imposed on the fighters and the sacrifices of human lives had been caused by the bloody war fought between those mountains. The hike was very nice but a veil of fill our hearts with sadness at the thought of how much pain they suffered many of our brothers to honor the Tricolore. Ugo__________________

Alpine

you on the hat, the feather of a bird of prey, but

fight to bring peace!

In your heart there is only Love,

but also the strength that gives you the Lord!

When the mountain started to climb

seems to want to get to Heaven.

Once at the shelter

breaks any delay

and while a song blends in

and around the mountain thunders

thoughts run faster

to those who are above, of the Cross

have made their voc
A color that on these mountains

have settled the accounts with the enemy

and I am happy because St.

the pen of 'alpine

the heart of God is always near!

Maria Grazia Napoli Labate

(exercise, 3rd Alpine Rally, July 30, 2000)