Alberta Felici
My age ... don't ask it to me ... I'm a Madam (who knows me is allowed to smile, not very much indeed, I could ... get angry!?!) Could I whisper it, confidentially, into your ears? Should it make a difference? The registered age cannot be changed, no one could take some years off, it's sufficient not to take them into account. I don't feel them but they can be seen, alas!
My speleological life starts in 1960 within the young association Speleo Club Roma, founded the former year by a hardened group of young men who wanted to go caving at a scientific level in Rome too.
I spent my best years in exploring and storing new experiences, and getting deeper knowledge from my "Masters of Geology". When these experts, for a reason or another one, left the Club, I got the need to show how much the disciple had learnt: so, just at that moment I started to bring my contributions to the regional, national and international Congresses of Speleology.
I could consider me speleologically mature just when I sent to press my report about the caves and the karst in the full territory of Carpineto commune, the finest achievement of more than fifteen years of persevering and methodical researches in the Lepini Mountains, South-East of Rome.
During these last years I cooperate to the exploration and investigation in the artificial cavities (the "souterrains") in Latium: the job is not easy, since around Rome these ones are by hundreds.
But, no use, I can't deny it, my hart always beats for the true Speleology, from which I can't part away. What then the best way, to be still involved in it, than to continue on writing, in order to leave a trace of the experiences I lived? It is fine to be enthusiastic for the researches still unachieved, to find a confirmation to the hypotheses expressed ten years ago, through the results of the explorations in further prosecutions or by finding new caves.
A part of this site is dedicated to the Speleo Club Roma Seniores: its purpose is to make the history of former explorations known by means of the circulation of still unpublished writings that were collected with the aim of commemorating its founder Giorgio Pasquini, just one year after its death. Together with Him, sadly, the living historical memory of the old glorious association disappeared, just when we were celebrating its first forty years. I do hope that the efforts of the older members, as we are (even if a lot of them still absent), could be understood and appreciated
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