Il contrario del sole

After an incessant production of geographical books with texts and photographs, Carlos Solito offers a narrative dedicated to his greatest passion: caves, caverns and abysses. Speleology stories from a fifteen-year period collected here and there among some Italian limestone massifs with some foreign mountains off course. The Contrary of the Sun is a journey into speleology and above all among those who do it. This is not a book that offers epic abyssal explorations and technical notions but, just like a climb up a well, it sweats the emotions that only the underground experience can give in places that, as the title of the work states, are the exact opposite of the outside world: full of pitch darkness. The ingredients of these pages are portraits of discoveries, eternal nights in the company of the acetylene flame, friendships and, above all, joys and fears.