Specially adapted and updated, see also the Three cups
of Tea— Young Reader's Edition that includes new maps,
illustrations and an afterword by Greg's twelve-year-old
daughter Amira.
One day in 1993, high up in the world's most inhospitable
mountains, Greg Mortenson wandered lost and alone, broken in
body and spirit, after a failed attempt to climb K2, the
world's deadliest peak. When the people of an impoverished
village in Pakistan's Karakoram Himalaya took him in and
nursed him back to health, Mortenson made an impulsive
promise: He would return one day and build them a school.
Although he was a homeless "climbing bum" living out of his
aging Buick in Berkeley, California, Mortenson sold what few
possessions he had to launch one of the most remarkable
humanitarian campaigns of our time.
Three Cups of Tea traces Mortenson's decade-long odyssey to
build schools, especially for girls, throughout the region
that gave birth to the Taliban and sanctuary to Al Qaeda.
While he wages war with the root causes of terrorism -
poverty and ignorance - by providing both girls and boys
with a balanced, nonextremist education.
Mortenson must survive a kidnapping, fatwas issued by
enraged mullahs, death threats from Americans who consider
him a traitor, and wrenching separations from his family.
Today, as the director of the Central Asia Institute,
Mortenson has built fifty-five schools serving Pakistan and
Afghanistan's poorest communities. And as this real-life
Indiana Jones from Montana crisscrosses the Himalaya and the
Hindu Kush fighting to keep these schools functioning, he
provides not only hope to tens of thousands of children, but
living proof that one passionately dedicated person truly
can change the world.
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