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How boredom pushed prisoner to escape, climb Mt Kenya

It was 1942, and Felice Benuzzi (above) was bored out of his mind. A year in a POW camp in British Kenya had drained the Italian civil servant and amateur mountaineer’s sense of purpose.

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