L UCENA CITY—Despite the ban imposed by the government, pilgrims and hikers, for a fee, have managed to reach restricted sections of Mt. Banahaw in Quezon province, especially as the Lenten ...

from view. “In a way, it’s kind of like the spirits are like that,” Salvatus says of his native Lucban, where he grew up gazing at mystical Mt. Banahaw from his boyhood window.