one man's mission to promote peace--one school at a time Mortenson, Greg. creator Relin, David Oliver. text biography nyu 2009 monographic eng

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xxiii, 349 pages, [16] pages of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm. 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 inhabitant's kindness, he promised to return and build a school. Three cups of tea are 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. juvenile Mortenson, Greg Girls' schools Pakistan Juvenile literature Girls' schools Afghanistan Juvenile literature Humanitarian assistance, American Pakistan Juvenile literature Humanitarian assistance, American Afghanistan Juvenile literature 371.82209549 9780141034263 DLC 090126 20241108112741.0