His story is at once a riveting adventure and a testament to the power of the humanitarian spirit. In 70 pages, Three Cups of Deceit managed to destroy one of my heroes-and I dont mean Greg Mortenson, whom the book intends to demonize. 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. Three Cups of Tea is the story of that promise and its extraordinary outcome. Moved by the inhabitants’ kindness, he promised to return and build a school. 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. Haji Ali, Korphe Village Chief, Karakoram mountains, Pakistan ‘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.’ The astonishing, uplifting story of a real-life Indiana Jones and his humanitarian campaign. The astonishing, uplifting story of a real-life Indiana Jones and his humanitarian campaign to use education to combat terrorism in the Taliban’s. In Korphe, Mortenson is welcomed warmly, and makes the villagers a promise to return to build them a school.

OVER HALF A MILLION PAPERBACKS SOLD IN THE US since publication in 2007, 37 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson, David Oliver Relin: 9780143038252 : Books. Three Cups of Tea tells the story of Greg Mortenson, a mountaineer whose failed ascent of K2 leads him into the tiny village of Korphe, Pakistan.