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pa rt (from french scientist J-P petit) From any side you see this tentacular case, one fall on complicated things, expensive and hard to prepare. The text of the first day on Earth gave some indications which could help to localise the cave where the first group of Ummits would have lived in 1950. They precise that this cave would still exists and that they stored there the devices of the first expedition. They propose to give them the earth authorities, the day they will reveal there presence on our floor. The Ummits give a certain number of points visible from the entry of the excavation. rail road. Not far from this refuge were growing some plant species called Valeriana Celta and Erica carnea. Fitted with these information, we did different reconnaissance, by foot. The UMMO affair is very stimulating for the intellect, but also very good for health. I would have never done so many walks in the mountains than to try to localise this damned refuge. In some years, Jean-Jacques and I we have climbed all tops of the region, one after the others, included this famous White Horse mountain, with its two We were leaving with a picnic and Jean-Jacques was often walking with his basset hound, Nestor, deceased today. The problem was not to loose the very undisciplinated dog. 88 The refuge of Digne. It was said to be located in a foothill, not far from the White Horse mountain. From there one could see two rivers, the "Bléone" and the "Bés", the houses of "la Javie" village, Digne and its old cathedral, a thousands meter top.