The astonishing and uplifting story of a real-life Indiana Jones and his remarkable humanitarian campaign in the Taliban's backyard.
- Authors: Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin
- Softcover; 349 pages; black-and-white photographs
- Penguin Books; copyright 2007
In 1993 a mountaineer named Greg Mortenson drifted into an impoverished Pakistan village in the Karakoram mountains after a failed attempt to climb K2. Moved by the inhabitants' kindness, he promised to return and build a school. Three Cups of Tea
is the story of that promise and its extraordinary outcome. During the next decade Mortenson built not just one but fifty-five schools—especially for girls—in the forbidding terrain that gave birth to the Taliban. His story is at once a riveting adventure and a testament to the power of the humanitarian spirit.
Made in USA.
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