canyon exploring with Michele Angileri

Canale di Malamorta

In the extraordinary landscape of San Lorenzo Bellizzi, hidden between the hills at the foot of Mount Sparviere, there is the splendid and scary Malamorta canyon. Rock is the same of Canale Margherita , very hard, made of thin layers crazily bent by orogeny, extraordinary, ... and (unlike Canale Margherita) beautified by water that flows all year long.

I remember ...

The name Canale di Malamorta means "valley of bad death" ... The name is a clear warning, and gives the idea of a very harsh and dangerous place.
The warning echoed strong in my mind as I came to the awesome narrow enclosed by tall unstable walls, a really scary place but beautiful too.

Once completed the descent I reflected on what a "bad death" can be ... Surely dying hit by a falling stone is a bad death, but dying old in bed without ever having seen and lived a place like this is really a "good death"?

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