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No Picnic on Mount Kenya
1953 First Edition USA
AuthorFelice Benuzzi
Original titleFuga sul Kenya
LanguageEnglish
GenreNarrative history
Media typeHardback and Paperback
Pages239
This image of Mount Kenya on an Oxo tin provided the three escapees with information on the unseen south face of the mountain.[1]

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.

  1. ^ a b Benuzzi, Felice (2005). No Picnic on Mount Kenya: A Daring Escape, a Perilous Climb. The Lyons Press. ISBN 1-59228-724-7.
  2. ^ Matthew Power. "Escape to Mount Kenya", National Geographic Adventure Magazine
  3. ^ "Fuga sul Kenya" (in Italian). Archived from the original on 15 January 2007. Retrieved 3 March 2008.
  4. ^ WorldCat. "No Picnic on Mount Kenya". Retrieved 3 March 2008.

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