Escape to the mountains
Why do people go to the mountains? To feel free, some say. This is what Felice Benuzzi and his fellow adventurers thought when in1943 they escaped from an English prison to climb the peak of Mount Kenya. Point Lenana, the book presented by Wu Ming 1 yesterday at the Film Festival della Lessinia, recounts this incredible undertaking by a group of Italians, as well as the continual intersection of History and stories -- of people and facts that not only form the background, but are essential to understanding the true meaning of that adventure: the refusal of every form of war, criticism of Fascist education and rhetoric, and a view of the mountains as something to be conquered. The mountains are, according to Wu Ming 1, a kind of Utopia that allow those who climb them to escape the regular, unnatural rhythms of the city and enter into a more fluid, humane reality.
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