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...PICNIC ON MOUNT KENYA (239 pp.) -Felice Benuzz!-Dutton...
...established adventures have their protocol, their professional techniques. Mountain climbers, big-game hunters and explorers nowadays set out only after supplying themselves with the most up-to-date maps, guides and gear. But the adventure of No Picnic on Mount Kenya was strictly amateur. It did not seek to prove any theories about man or the universe; it was merely a gesture of private spunk...
Felice Benuzzi, the onetime Italian colonial official who tells the story, was interned by the British in 1941 and sent to Nanyuki, Kenya. Like any other P.W., he hated internment: the demoralizing idleness, the inability to be alone. But his camp was overshadowed by 17,000-ft. Mount Kenya, "a massive, blue-black tooth of sheer rock." To some of the prisoners it became a symbol of freedom...
...veteran Alpinist, Benuzzi conceived the scheme of walking out of the poorly guarded camp, scaling Mount Kenya, and then-since there was little prospect of getting back to Italian-controlled areas-of blandly returning to captivity. His scheme had no practical end: it was simply Benuzzi's idea of self-expression...
...zone" (natives and British search parties) toward the base of the mountain. Loaded down with heavy rucksacks, unarmed except for crude ice axes, without a map, they then invaded the "animal danger zone" (lions, leopards) and began to follow a stream which they hoped had its source high on Mount Kenya...