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mistakes, and investigate the kind of love that gives and “does not demand”, in the words of Hermann Hesse. There is always that one wayfarer in these parts who travels alone, or sets aside his notes to observe the hands of an elderly woman move on a clean tablecloth, as she separates taste from chaff in her bowl full of wild and, perhaps, slightly unripe radicchio. One like Federico Lindner, who was appointed as director of the Office of Metals and Mining of the municipality of Trieste, and then spent his time in office exploring Karst caves and crevasses, relentlessly searching for the legendary truths of the Timav, river in the night. Water may sometimes spring from the Karst subsoil, while wine rests in the Karst’s wide natural cellars. In Prepotto, town of Vitovska, winemaker Matej Lupinc overturns latitude and longitude, letting the wind blow into his barrels so that his Malvasia would capture its taste. “The Bora blows down from over there” he says pointing to an unexpected direction. It is disorienting, almost like getting dizzy while watching climbers exercising on natural rock formations a free treasure chest cherishing 18
Molti alpinisti locali, dagli antri del Carso raggiunsero, tra i primi, le più difficili vette dolomitiche. — Many climbers of the most difficult peaks of the Dolomites, have started their journey from the caves of the Karst.
eminent memories. From Val Rosandra to the Strada Napoleonica, great names still echo through the trails; names such as Emilio Comici, Enzo Cozzolino, Tiziana Weiss, Napoleone Cozzi, and many others, who were among the first to climb the most difficult peaks of the Dolomites, having started their journey from the caves of the Karst. The way of the borderland spirals upwards and investigates the deep. It is a long list covering botany, local history, worship of memory, and traditional craftsmanship; but also physics applied to integration, and open arms welcoming everything we were deprived of in these long months of pandemics. Emotional reforestation and patient topdressing are now crucial, so that all
the maps may finally overlap and show a complete picture. Wayfaring on this border is similar to doing research before the digital era, leafing through encyclopaedias, visiting libraries, and talking to grandparents. Each of those overlapping maps tells its own story, and all have to be enjoyed slowly. A new world in each step, and in each story a reason to return.
La sezione dell’Abisso di Trebiciano esplorata da Federico Lindner (1841)
