Three Cups of Tea is at once an unforgettable adventure and the inspiring true story of how one man really is changing the world-one school at a time. At last count, his Central Asia Institute had built fifty-five schools. In pursuit of his goal, Mortenson has survived kidnapping, fatwas issued by enraged mullahs, repeated death threats, and wrenching separations from his wife and children. From that rash, earnest promise grew one of the most incredible humanitarian campaigns of our time-Greg Mortenson's one-man mission to counteract extremism by building schools, especially for girls, throughout the breeding ground of the Taliban.Īward-winning journalist David Oliver Relin has collaborated on this spellbinding account of Mortenson's incredible accomplishments in a region where Americans are often feared and hated. Krakauer went on to question Mortenson's credibility through the financial practices of CAI. Three Cups of Tea is a memoir by Greg Mortenson about his journey of building schools and promoting education in the remote mountain regions of Pakistan and Afghanistan. After he was taken in and nursed back to health by the people of an impoverished Pakistani village, Mortenson promised to return one day and build them a school. Krakauer questioned the accuracy of events in Mortenson's book Three Cups of Tea and whether Mortenson was kidnapped by the Taliban in 1996 as described in his second book, Stones into Schools.

In 1993 Greg Mortenson was the exhausted survivor of a failed attempt to ascend K2, an American climbing bum wandering emaciated and lost through Pakistan's Karakoram Himalaya. Mortensons book, Three Cups of Tea, has sold more than four million copies and is required reading for U.S. The inspiring account of one man's campaign to build schools in the most dangerous, remote, and anti-American reaches of Asia.

Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson