Felice benuzzi biography of michael

          FELICE BENUZZI was born in Vienna to a family of mountaineers.

        1. Felice Benuzzi was born in Vienna in and grew up in Trieste, doing his early mountaineering in the Julian Alps.
        2. Felice Benuzzi was born in Vienna, Austria, on November 16, , and grew up in Trieste, mountaineering in the Julian Alps and Dolomites.
        3. Prisoner-of-war Felice Benuzzi is transfixed.
        4. A rediscovered mountaineering classic and the extraordinary true story of a daring escape up Mount Kenya by three prisoners of war.

          5. Felice Benuzzi was born in Vienna, Austria, on November 16, , and grew up in Trieste, mountaineering in the Julian Alps and Dolomites.!

          No Picnic on Mount Kenya

          1946 book by Felice Benuzzi

          1953 First Edition USA

          AuthorFelice Benuzzi
          Original titleFuga sul Kenya
          LanguageEnglish
          GenreNarrative history
          Media typeHardback and Paperback
          Pages239

          No Picnic on Mount Kenya (Italian: Fuga sul Kenya) by Felice Benuzzi is a mountaineering classic recounting the 1943 attempt of three escaped Italian prisoners of war to reach the summit of Mount Kenya.[1][2] It was first published in 1946 in English and 1947 in Italian.[3][4] The 1994 film The Ascent is based on this book.

          Synopsis

          Detained at POWCamp 354 near Nanyuki, Kenya, Felice Benuzzi from Trieste, together with two fellow-prisoners Dr. Giovanni ('Giuàn') Balletto from Genova and Vincenzo ('Enzo') Barsotti from Lido di Camaiore, escaped in January 1943 and climbed Mt Kenya with improvised equipment and meagre rations, two of them reaching a point on the north face