Three Cups of Tea : One Man's Mission to Promote Peace... One School at a Time (Hardcover)

from Donna828

Greg Mortenson may have failed in his attempt to reach the top of K-2 in Pakistan, but he has found success in his role as humanitarian. In gratitude to the villagers who saved his life, he promised to return and build a much-needed school. After he had seen children sitting on the open ground sc...

from SeriousGrace

What started as a quest to climb K2 became a much loftier goal for Greg Mortenson when he decided to become humanitarian extraordinaire. Fueled by losing his father early to cancer and losing his sister early to epilepsy, Mortenson knew he had to find a way to help the children of Baltistan obtai...

from ImBookingIt

This is a grudging 4 stars, because I can't really justify giving it lower rating.In general, I loved what Mortenson was doing. I just didn't think the story was told well. I didn't like the organization of the book, and the telling of the story was disappointing to me at times.I think it was wor...

from kslade

Good story of a former mountain climber's work on building schools for girls in the Middle East or Central Asia area. Very inspiring. I hope the rumors that he falsified some of it are not true.

from peacemover

I read Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin last year and found it very poignant and engaging. Mortenson was an incredible mountain climber who set out to conquer K2, and, after having to abort the climb in order to help save a fellow climber who was critically injured, disc...