During WWII, Benuzzi was an Italian prisoner of war at Camp 354 in Nanyuki, Kenya, near Mount Kenya. Out of boredom and a desire to prove the human spirit, he and two fellow prisoners escaped—not to flee to safety—but to climb Mount Kenya (17,057 ft) with improvised gear (including a homemade ice axe from scrap metal and rope from torn sheets). After a harrowing climb, they returned to the camp and surrendered.
This is a classic mountaineering and POW escape memoir, first published in 1952 (originally as No Picnic on Mount Kenya ). The subtitle A Daring Escape, A Perilous Climb is used on some later editions. During WWII, Benuzzi was an Italian prisoner of
During WWII, Benuzzi was an Italian prisoner of war at Camp 354 in Nanyuki, Kenya, near Mount Kenya. Out of boredom and a desire to prove the human spirit, he and two fellow prisoners escaped—not to flee to safety—but to climb Mount Kenya (17,057 ft) with improvised gear (including a homemade ice axe from scrap metal and rope from torn sheets). After a harrowing climb, they returned to the camp and surrendered.
This is a classic mountaineering and POW escape memoir, first published in 1952 (originally as No Picnic on Mount Kenya ). The subtitle A Daring Escape, A Perilous Climb is used on some later editions.