ITALIANS’ FEAT
ESCAPED PRISONERS CLIMB MT KENYA. THEN RETURN TO CAMP. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) NAIROBI, February 20. Three escaped Italian prisoners of war climbed Mount Kenya and placed an Italian flag on the summit. Afterward they returned to camp and surrendered. The prisoners before the war were mountaineers. Mount Kenya, about 80 miles north-north-east of Nairobi, capital of Kenya Colony, rises to a height of 17,040 feet and has 15 glaciers, though it is but a few miles south of the equator. It has only been scaled twice previously, once in 1899 and again in 1929.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 February 1943, Page 4
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