Three Cups of Tea (P/B)

'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 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 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.