Three Cups of Tea
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Three Cups of Tea is a true and inspirational tale of one man’s mission to build schools in one of the most dangerous and remote places in Asia. The story begins in 1993, when a broken and exhausted Greg Mortenson descends from his attempt to climb K2 in Pakistan’s Karakoram Himalaya. After getting lost, the American climber finds himself in an impoverished village where he is nursed back to health by its residents.
When he regains his strength, Mortenson looks around and finds the girls of the village trying to educate themselves by writing lessons in the dirt with sticks. To show his gratitude for taking him in, Mortenson vows to return to the village and build a school. It is that promise that sets his humanitarian journey in motion.
The rest of the account involves Mortenson selling all his belongings and moving to the region that birthed the Taliban. He survives kidnapping, was issued by enraged mullahs, death threats and separation from his family—all to counteract extremism by building schools. Today, Mortenson is the director of the Central Asia Institute and has built fifty-five schools serving Pakistan and Afghanistan’s poorest communities.
Three Cups of Tea chronicles one man’s ideas about how to fight the war on terrorism, by bringing real education to children.
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