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AfricaPress-Kenya:<\/strong> 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\u2019s sense of purpose.So, he hatched a plan that would become one of the purest adventure tales in history: break out of camp, climb Mt Kenya, and break back in again.<\/p>\n

Bonkers? Absolutely. Dangerous? Insanely so. Yet it became one of the most fulfilling challenges of Benuzzi\u2019s life. Boredom is like that; it inspires crazy, perilous, wonderful things.Humans can\u2019t stand being bored.<\/p>\n

Studies show we\u2019ll do just about anything to avoid it, from compulsive smartphone scrolling right up to giving ourselves electric shocks. And as emotions go, boredom is incredibly good at parting us from our money \u2013 we\u2019ll even try to buy our way out of the feeling with distractions like impulse shopping.\u201c<\/p>\n

People will pay more to avoid boredom than other negative emotions like sadness, and will pay as much to avoid boredom as they would to experience love,\u201d said Heather Lench, professor and head of the Psychological & Brain Sciences Department at Texas A&M University in the US.<\/p>\n

It was love that brought Felice Benuzzi to Africa in the first place. He married Stefania, a fiery young Jewish woman, days before Italy\u2019s 1938 racial laws made such unions illegal. They immediately left for the colonies where the laws didn\u2019t yet reach. In 1941, Italian colonial Africa fell to Britain, and Stefania and their baby daughter were detained in Ethiopia. Benuzzi was sent to British-held Kenya.<\/p>\n

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Sunrise on Mount Kenya from Shipton Camp.\u00a0<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Gloomy conditionsConditions in Camp 354 were not dire, but they were soul-crushingly dull. Each waking moment was shared with hundreds of gloomy, worried men. Prisoners had no privacy, no agency and no way of knowing how long the situation would last.That uncertainty was especially hard. According to Lench, \u201cWhen people feel like they cannot escape boredom, it can have very bad consequences leading to apathy and disengagement and possibly to depression.\u201d<\/p>\n

Benuzzi was well on the way; listless and downhearted. Then one morning he glimpsed a tremendous mountain through the clouds \u2013 Mt Kenya, the second-highest peak in Africa. His heart lurched.\u201cFor hours afterwards I remained spellbound,\u201d he later wrote. \u201cI had definitely fallen in love.\u201dBoredom is a powerful motivator, making us reach for something, anything, new. New isn\u2019t necessarily better, though; boredom can prompt all kinds of unhealthy behaviours, from overeating to drug use.<\/p>\n

Lench\u2019s research suggests we tend to choose distractions with the opposite emotional context to whatever bored us in the first place.<\/p>\n

Negatively boring situations \u2013 say being trapped in a POW camp or stuck home during a virulent pandemic \u2013 can encourage us to seek out positive distractions. They can also make us go a little over-the-top. Risky, outsized ideas are more appealing when we\u2019re bored. And Benuzzi\u2019s jailbreak ascent was very risky indeed.\u201c<\/p>\n

It was a mad adventure from start to finish,\u201d said Rory Steele, author of The Heart and the Abyss: The Life of Felice Benuzzi.Steele first encountered Benuzzi\u2019s story on the bookshelf of his family\u2019s rented villa as an adventure-hungry boy aged 10.<\/p>\n

Steele never got over the climber\u2019s audacious certainty. \u201cHe became obsessed with the idea. He saw that mountain and knew he had to climb it.\u201dBenuzzi was an experienced mountaineer, but Mt Kenya (5,199m) outstripped anything he\u2019d encountered in the Julian Alps back home. He was undernourished and undertrained, not to mention ill-equipped, with no access to climbing gear.<\/p>\n

Then there were the dangers: altitude sickness; hypothermia; wild animals (all of Africa\u2019s Big Five roamed the landscape between camp and peak); and the very real possibility of getting shot.Evading guardsEspecially since he\u2019d have to brave the camp guards twice \u2013 sneaking out of the camp and back in again.<\/p>\n

(Note: Escape was a non-starter; neutral Mozambique was more than 1,000km away through British and lion-held territory. Anyway, that wasn\u2019t the point. This was art for art\u2019s sake.)<\/p>\n

Well, Benuzzi decided, he\u2019d just have to figure it out. After all, he had plenty of time.In the popular imagination, great adventures involve dashing out the door to take on the world.In fact, large-scale adventure requires a whole lot of groundwork. Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay didn\u2019t just show up to Everest one bank holiday; their 1953 summit took years of preparation and, by Hillary\u2019s count, the combined efforts of 700 people.<\/p>\n

Fortunately, from our brain\u2019s point of view, preparing for a goal is just as fulfilling as achieving it, perhaps better.\u201cAfter we attain a goal, our response to it fades pretty quickly,\u201d said Lench. \u201cWhen we are pursuing a goal, that goal focuses our effort, emotions and thinking in a way that promotes positive states sometimes called \u2018flow states\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n

Most of us have experienced flow states: getting so wrapped up in a project that we glance up to find hours have passed. Flow states are associated with feelings of happiness as well as increased productivity and creativity.<\/p>\n

All this was good news for Benuzzi, as every task between him and Mt Kenya was a creative challenge. And he loved every fiddling, logistical problem.His checklist would be familiar to a modern traveller: planning the route, getting in shape, acquiring equipment, and some serious budgeting (though in his case it was of calories, not cash).<\/p>\n

Yet half a century away from map apps and Amazon delivery, everything had to be done the hard way: crafting crampons from scrap metal and making climbing ropes from sisal bed nets (the same twine used on cat scratching posts).<\/p>\n

Tin label as mapBenuzzi\u2019s sketches of Mt Kenya plus a tin can label with a picture of the mountain served as maps. Anything he couldn\u2019t make was bartered for with cigarettes.It took eight months to prepare everything \u2013 a period of purpose and relative happiness.<\/p>\n

But not for one minute did it escape Benuzzi that the whole endeavour was completely nuts.\u201cHe became quite proud of it,\u201d Steele laughed. But even a madman couldn\u2019t do it alone. \u201cHe knew because he was an accomplished mountaineer that he would need at least two people to go with him \u2013 two more madmen.\u201d<\/p>\n

It just so happened the perfect guys were right there in Camp 354: Giu\u00e0n Balletto and Enzo Barsotti, who were just as bored as Benuzzi was. On the night of 24 January 1943, with the aid of a skilfully copied key and some deceptive costuming, the three found themselves outside the barbed wire and on their way to Mt Kenya.<\/p>\n

Goals are adaptable; sometimes we get to chase them travelling through the world and sometimes we have to continue from a desk.<\/p>\n

After a triumphant return to the prison camp 17 days later, Benuzzi prolonged the escapade by writing a book, published in English as No Picnic on Mount Kenya. (And if you\u2019re itching to find out what happened up there, it\u2019s a great read.)<\/p>\n

Four more years would pass before he was reunited with his family in Italy, but Benuzzi\u2019s outlook had changed for the better.\u201cI do not consider the five years I spent as a prisoner of war as the sweetest of my life,\u201d he wrote with characteristic drollness.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut I can at least bear witness to the difference between my mental state in the years \u2018before Mt Kenya\u2019 and those years \u2018after Mt Kenya\u2019, when I was busy writing these lines.\u201dBy Lench\u2019s criteria, the Mt Kenya climb was the perfect long-term boredom fix \u2013 not because it was epic, but because it was deeply personal.\u201c<\/p>\n

It should be something interesting and meaningful, tied to their personal identity,\u201d Lench suggests, \u201csomething they always wanted to do and never seemed to have time for.\u201dSo, if you\u2019re an adventurer stuck at home, now\u2019s the time to dream big.<\/p>\n

Find some madmen to join you (how about the family?). Then get started on the groundwork that will make that dream possible. After all, we have plenty of time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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