The logo Mankealpi
​Mankealpi is MAN (man) + KE (kinetic energy, energy in motion) + ALPI (universal expression of mountains). Its reading, with a wordplay, does also sounds (in italian) like «but also Alps», a sort of message linked to the desire to explore, inside and outside ourselves: from the Dolomites to Mont Blanc, from Norway to Patagonia and beyond, because limits are only in our mind.
The letter M also stands for Mounts and Mountains: in its rotated position, it draws a precise geographical area within two linear axes of great importance for the hiker, delimiting a unique outdoor world featuring three major settings absolutely different from each other although so close: the Brenta Dolomites, the Adamello-Presanella Massif and the Lake Garda.
The first line connects Adamello and Presanella to the northwest and features glaciers, green-colored slopes and imposing peaks. The second, to the southeast, connects the Brenta Dolomites and Lake Garda, offering fantastic rock, irregular contours and shapes and two antipodal climates, one Alpine and one Mediterranean. Between the two lines runs the River Sarca, fed by the waters of both glaciers and the deep karst cavities of the Dolomites: undisturbed and perpetual, flows toward the center of the valley (mankealpi home), goes on drawing the splendid Forra del Limarò (an amazing canyon) and ends its jorneys into the Lake Garda, across the beaufiful setting of Arco, Riva del Garda and Torbole.
The M of Mankealpi is also Man or Mannaz, one of the last Runes (á›—) of the runic alphabet. The Rhaetian civilization had its epicenter in the current Trentino or more generally the whole of Tyrol: it underlines how important it is for the seeker, now at the end of his journey in the world of the Runes, to have created on his path bonds of intimacy and trust with other human beings who share his path. A fundamental step to arrive at a healthy development of conscience, reason and awareness.
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