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Gina is cast as a peasant girl of the Abruzzi mountains, a sort of cross between Lady Godiva, the farmer's daughter and a merrily uncommon scold. The butt of some pretty rich barnyard humor as she bounces around the countryside on her donkey, Gina gives as good as she gets. Her ragged dress appears inadequate for keeping the weather out, but it lets in a lot of stares. However, a peep is all the village Toms get. Gina is in love with a local cop (Roberto Risso), and he with her. Police regulations, however, deplore such goings...
Stubborn as Sin. Desio's was the sixth attempt to conquer the "killer mountain," as K-2 is often called. The Duke of the Abruzzi tried and failed in 1909; so did the Duke of Spoleto in 1929. Always before, men were driven back by cold as severe as Everest's, gales that can stop a man's breathing, rock falls that roar like siege guns, flinging boulders the size of trucks...
Death on the Ridge. Professor Desio and his men laid Camp 1 at the foot of the Abruzzi Ridge, a gaunt rib which lances upwards towards the summit of K2. On the fearful Abruzzi, perhaps the longest continuously steep climbing ridge in the world, a man is like a fly on a wall. He must edge himself up a vertical "chimney," 100 feet high; if he grabs too hard at the rock, it crumbles in his hand...
They were taking a holiday. It was Ferragosto Day (Aug. 15), Italy's best loved and most ancient annual holiday,* and from the teeming Eternal City (pop. 1,600,000) a million Romans decamped to their seaside villas and to public picnic grounds in the Abruzzi Mountains or at war-famed Anzio Beach. Shops, offices, banks, even Vatican City's Sistine Chapel, were closed up tight, though St. Peter's, as always, stayed open. Garbage went uncollected. milk undelivered, newspapers unpublished and tourists unsolicited by the prostitutes in Villa Borghese park. At his summer palace of Castel...
...young man, he was sent to school at Rome. But Rome's licentiousness shocked him as it was to shock Martin Luther ten centuries later. St. Benedict fled into the bleak wastes of the Abruzzi. Later he went to the ruins of Nero's villa near Anzio. In the rocks opposite the ruins he found a cave, where he lived forgotten by the crumbling world...