A book I released on a mountain summit in England has turned up on a summit on the other side of the world, in Australia.
The copy of Arundati Roy's The God of Small Things which I left on the trig pillar at the summit of Coniston Old Man, in the English Lake District, last September has turned up on another mountain-top, this time in south-eastern Australia. Bookcrosser duddles picked up the book and took it home, all around the world. It has now been released on Pigeon House Mountain in New South Wales. This book has already had quite a few adventures, and I'm quite sure it will have many more! Ok, ok, it isn't Mount Elbrus, but it is the highest closed place in Europe: 4,554 m (or 4459) above sea level, Capanna Margherita, the hut in the summit of punta Gnifetti or Signalkuppe for Swiss people. The place is near the top of Monte Rosa, a mountainous massif across Piedmont, Aosta Valley and Canton of Valais (Wallis). Two words only, (I'm Italian and my English is terrible). Why This book, particularly? Simple, the lighter book in my hands! In weight, obviously, but also in reading (in my language, light book means easy book). We walked with food and equipment in backpack for one week, around and in the top of mountains upper 4K meters, and in the evening we need to relax. Ah, first the link: Un bivio nel passato. Now three photos: the book, at capanna Margherita in the hand of my friend Roby, Omar, another my friend in the top of peak Ludwigshöhe (4,341 m), near the hut at right, and me at the top of Piramide Vincent, in the lower left of photo. Perhaps, in future, a book release in White Mountain (Monte Bianco 4,810 m), in an aluminium can.
