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“What I love about this book is that he’s just a normal guy, living a normal life who gets swept into a prisoner of war camp…They’re just bored out of their brains, and to make matters either better or worse, out in the distance, beyond the barbed wire, is this beautiful skyline with Mount Kenya. Benuzzi was trapped in a prison and out there was this big mountain, this symbol of adventure and freedom. He was quite a good climber so just for fun, really, and to idly pass the time, he started daydreaming about breaking out of prison to climb the mountain.” Read more...
Alastair Humphreys, Travel Writer
