Giorgio Fontanive, a journalist and mountain writer, preserves the history and culture of mountain life with his precious historical memory.
In this story, he takes us back in time when the economy of these valleys drew its sustenance from the few natural resources typical of the mountains.
The ‘Menadas’ was a trade, now disappeared, that provided the transport of timber down the valley by exploiting the rushing waters of the torrents. The story bears witness to the change that has taken place in the ‘idyllic world’ of the menadas with the construction of hydroelectric power stations and the consequent human effort to adapt to industrial innovation, which causes a ‘wound’ in the primordial aspect of the natural environment.
