Monte Verità: A Tale of Love, Loss, and a Secret Sect

Chapter 1

1. They met at school and later went to study at Cambridge.
2. In the letter, he said that he was engaged to be married and he'd like William to be his best man at the wedding.
3. She thinks that mountains are very demanding and the climbers have to give them everything. In her opinion, it was wiser for someone like her not to stay away from them. About her attitude, there was then a certain reserve in her behavior, as if she was closing herself up.

Chapter 2

1. He came to love her as much as he did.
2. When they were getting down the mountain, the weather changed and it became completely dark. One moment Anna was by Victor’s side, and the next she was gone. Finally, she appeared the next morning and said she had taken shelter under a large rock.

Chapter 3

1. The name means “The Mountain of Truth.” Anna chose to go there because it’s a place that looks completely inaccessible and they have never climbed there.
2. He had a crisis and was terribly ill in a clinic because Anna had left him.
3. Because she had found what she wanted. There was a closed sect there, and she was with them.

Chapter 4

1. They looked terrified and ran to their houses with their children.
2. Because the sect had great power, and they have always feared for their young girls and their women in that village. They never go up the mountain.
3. She disappeared and was gone.

Chapter 5

1. They have got power and perhaps magic. They also live behind their walls. It’s said that the *sacerdotessa* of Monte Verità never grows up, so she stays young and beautiful forever. They get the power of the moon.
2. There was a monastery, narrow slits in the walls, and a tower. There was no sign of life.

Chapter 6

1. He saw his wife.
2. She wore a white robe, a belt of shaped stones, and she had cut her hair very short.
3. He would return there every year, and he would ask her to come home with him.

Chapter 7

1. Victor got to Monte Verità each year, and they communicated by letters.
2. He was flying from one city to another because he was in Europe for business, and one of those flights had to make an emergency landing in a mountain area. It was Mount Verità.

Chapter 8

1. He went into a house which looked inhabited and saw a man who asked him if he was the doctor because there was somebody ill in that house. When William went to the room and saw the ill man, he realized he was Victor.
2. He asked him to climb up the mountain and to warn Anna that her community might be in danger.

Chapter 9

1. He stood facing the twin peaks under the moon.
2. Suddenly, after he put the letter on the ground, arms stretched out and grabbed him.

Chapter 10

1. He offered her to come because Victor was so ill, and he needed to see her one last time.
2. One side of her face had been eaten away, damaged terribly by leprosy. The disease was on her forehead, her throat, and her skin. The eyes were blackened, sunk deep into their sockets.
3. To keep Victor’s dream that she would never grow old.