Audio Book Description:
One Day in 1993 high up in the world`smost inhospitable mountains, Greg Mortenson wandered lost and alone, broken in body and spirit, after afailed attempt to climb K2, theworlds deadliest peak. When the people of an impoverished village in Pakistan`s Karakoram Himalaya took him in andnursed him back to health, Mortenson made an impulsive promise: He would return one day and build them a school. ThreeCups of Tea traces Mortenson`sdecade-long odyssey to build schools (especially for girls),throughout the region that gave birth to the Taliban and sanctuary to Al Qaeda. While hewages war with the root causes of terrorism-poverty and ignorance- Mortenson must survive a kidnapping, fatwas issued by enraged mullahs, deaththreats from Americans who consider him a traitor, and wrenching separations from his family. Mortenson has built fifty-five schoolsserving Pakistan and Afghanistan`s poorest communities. And as this real- life Indiana Jones from Montana crisscrosses the Himalaya and the HinduKush fighting to keep these schools functioning, he provides not only hope to tens of thousands of children but living proof that one passionatelydedicated person truly can change the world.
