No Picnic on Mount Kenya: A Daring Escape, a Perilous Climb |
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Felice Benuzzi
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Pages: 248 (Paperback)
ISBN: 1592287247
Pub: The Lyons Press
Pub date: 2005-07
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 158334
Reader Reviews:
Literally an escape to the mountains. Brilliant! (0/0 people found this helpful)
My first copy of this book is a 1955 paperback (2/6d net!). I've read it so many times that it's nearly fallen apart. This will appeal to mountaineers, those who like stories about the war and those who just like a really good adventure tale. And it's all true! Planning an ascent from within the confines of a prisoner of war camp, three Italian soldiers, longing for their native Dolomites, see Mount Kenya as a way of lifting the boredom of being PoWs. Brilliantly written; it's funny, sad, exciting, beautifully descriptive and compulsive. To whoever is sitting on the screen rights - please do something about it!
Climbing Mount Kenya with home-made crampons (0/1 people found this helpful)
This is an enthralling book.
Benuzzi and his companions realised that escape to the nearest neutral country - Mozamabique - would be impractical, but despondent of prison camp life, they decided to escape anyway - but instead climb one of Africa's highest mountains.
The story of how they made home-made climbing equipment under the noses of the prison guards is as exciting as the story of their daring climb itself.
As well as the British and the hazards of the mountain, they also had elephants, leopards and rhinos to contend with.
A tremendous tale of adventure and determination against all the odds. Highly recommended to anyone interested in either escape stories or mountaineering.
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