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[S.Primo Mountain] [The Lentina stone] [The 1946 avalanche] [Movie]

A story of Carletto Sancassani (class 1939).
After having built the Albergone ("Hotel Park Mountain S. Primo", inaugurated in 1928) he passed to the construction of the annex with attached garages, a little more ahead of the same allbergo.
An elderly farmer, that going itself to the alpe passed in front of the yard, churches to the workers: "Cusa him fà dree? " ("Thing is doing? "). "The annex of the hotel", these responded. Heard the answer, the elderly one shaking the head said: "Alora him dree sultriness a cemeteries! " ("Then is building a cemetery! ").
This because, as well that man remembered him, in past times they had already fallen some avalanches in that point.
During the second world war, the wild deforestation of the mountain worsened the situation and therefore, without more trees that could serve as brake to the snow, the danger of avalanches he multiplied.

And so, the 14 March of 1946, an avalanche detached him from the mountain and overwhelmed the annex.
You said that they unintentionally caused it two skiing foreigners, lodged near the I lodge. They found you the death 11 people, all people that lodged there because he worked. Saved only mr. Colombo , they found himafter 36 hours. He succeeded in surviving thanks to the fact that found again under him in a kind of niche to a beam.
His wife and their child, that were with him in the same place during the misfortune, found instead the death. Already during the second world war mr. Colombo had remained trapped under the bombardments to Milan, here he came to then to work with the family and this new misfortune happened him.