TRENTO. «Last day….You Arrigo will remain the coolest person I have met up here….I’m sad I spent two years of my life here, I will return as a guest….I want to go back to pick mushrooms and fish I haven’t experienced summer for 7
years…..It was beautiful thanks to everyone”. With these words posted on Facebook Carlo Budel, 51 years old, from Belluno, he took leave of “his” refuge, Punta Penia Hutat the top of the Marmolada, the highest in the Dolomites at 3343 metres.
His photos and videos from the glacier have ended up on national news programs, on the websites of major newspapers and on social networks with hundreds of thousands of views.
“It can happen that snow arrives up here in the middle of summer.” He resisted for seven summers, the solitary guardian of an ancient refuge built with the remains of Austrian military barracks from the Great War, clinging to the mountain with eight steel tie rods.
Hard life, l‘supply is done by backpack and to wash the dishes Budel melted water in the stove: «But when I look into the eyes of the people who reach the summit I see happiness». The cell phone? It depends on which way the wind blows: «Sometimes it works, sometimes not, when there is signal I take advantage of it to send my photos».
2024-09-24 07:47:22