Book description
'Here we drink three cups of tea to do business; the first you are a
stranger, the second you become a friend, and the third, you join our
family, and for our family we are prepared to do anything even die. Haji
Ali, Korphe Village Chief, Karakoram mountains, Pakistan In 1993, after
a terrifying and disastrous attempt to climb K2, a mountaineer called
Greg Mortenson drifted, cold and dehydrated, into an impoverished
Pakistan village in the Karakoram Mountains. 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. Over the next
decade Mortenson built not just one but fifty-five schools especially
for girls in remote villages across the forbidding and breathtaking
landscape of Pakistan and Afghanistan, just as the Taliban rose to
power. His story is at once a riveting adventure and a testament to the
power of the humanitarian spirit. Greg Mortenson is the director of
the Central Asia Institute, and he spends several months each year
building schools in Pakistan and Afghanistan. He lives in Montana with
his wife and two children. David Oliver Relin is a globe-trotting
journalist who has won more than forty national awards for his writing
and editing. He lives in Portland, Oregon.
