THREE CUPS OF TEA:
One Man's Mission to Fight Terrorism and Build Nations . . .
One School at a Time
Greg Mortenson (2007)

“Here (in Pakistan and Afghanistan), 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.

Hiji Ali, Korphe village chief, Karakoram Mountains, Pakistan

In 1993 an American 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. Over the next decade Mortenson built not just 1 but 55 schools 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 humanitarian spirit.

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