This is actually more than a year old already but I just happened to stumble on this story from Inquirer:
Italian falls in Sagada ravine, dies
By Desiree Caluza
Northern Luzon Bureau
First Posted 06:15pm (Mla time) 01/31/2007SAGADA, Mt. Province, Philippines — An Italian tourist died after falling into a 100-meter-deep ravine in Echo Valley, a popular tourist destination here, on Wednesday.
George Datliyan, a member of the Sagada Environmental Guides Association (SEGA), said Giovanni Pozzoni, 42, was taking pictures in Echo Valley when he stepped on dried pine needles, slipped, and fell at about 3:35 p.m.
Reports said Pozzoni, whose head hit a rock, died before reaching the Saint Theodore’s Hospital, some 200 meters from the accident site.
Datliyan said Pozzoni and his companions, Italian Faravelli Alberto and Filipino Jerson Palgue, did not register with their office and went to Echo Valley accompanied only by a teenager living in the area.
Local and tourism officials require visitors to register with SEGA so they can be provided with professional guides familiar with the terrain and the town’s famous caves.
Alberto said he and Pozzoni arrived in the country on January 21.
I’ve been to the Echo Valley twice, once while it was raining and I assure everybody that it is a dangerous place to be during a downpour. The locals call it the Echo Valley but it’s really more like a ravine. If you stand by a ledge and have the guts to look down, you’ll see it’s a long way and painful drop.
Those fellas shouldn’t have gone there with just a kid as a guide. That’s why there’s the SEGA. Last time I was there, there’s this new association of guides. I suggest you get the services of the SEGA people. Not just because they were the original group, but because they have the more experienced guides.
Perhaps it was meant for the cemetery to be placed on top of a hill very near the Echo Valley.
Sagada is nature. It is beautiful but it can be unforgiving at times. Just be extra careful when you’re there.
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