A promise kept

Three Cups of Tea is the extraordinary true story of Greg Mortenson overzealous determination to the lives of children through the construction of secular schools in very remote mountain regions of northern Pakistan to change.

Greg Mortenson has had a successful climbers for many years. In 1993, he failed to climb "The Savage Peak, K2, the second highest mountain in the Himalayas. After losing his way in extreme physical weakness, he reached the villageof Korphe.

The villagers took in, happy to share what they overlap very little. After eating a piece of rancid shots Capricorn rubbed against the green chewing tobacco and drinking a cup of butter tea, green tea with salt, baking powder, goat milk and a thin piece at the age of yak butter Greg Mortenson slept at all.

For the next two months went by Mortenson stayed in the village always physically stronger as the weeks. In these two months he was aware ofas primitive living. "Everything about his life was a struggle." After observing eighty-two children sit on the floor, scratching multiplication in the mud with sticks, Mortenson was emotionally moved and will reimburse the facts of the villagers with the construction of a school for children, a secular school that does not include only boys but also girls.

When Mortenson returned to the U.S., was financially broke, but firm, the promise keptto return to Korphe to build a school. For next year, he lived in his car to save money. His nights were filled with work as a nurse in the emergency room of a San Francisco Medical Center trauma. He spent his days writing letters in a copy center, its target to 580 characters. He wrote to people like Oprah Winfrey, news anchor, movie stars, U.S. senators and extremely wealthy Americans. After six months she had only received a response of one hundred dollars.

Finally, GregMortenson met with Dr. Jean Hoerni who wrote a check for twelve thousand dollars, the estimated Mortenson was to build a school in Korphe. Back to Korphe and after many challenges, Mortenson finally completed the construction of a school.

Overcoming the numerous seemingly insurmountable obstacles and, Mortenson has worked tirelessly over the next ten years to over 50 schools through the establishment of Central Asia Institute to build. All schools teach the samesecular curriculum, Greg Mortenson was the target for boys and girls "for a balanced education, are not extremists."

Greg Mortenson is a humanitarian who strives to make the world a better place. Through him, thousands of children's lives have changed. He hopes that other people want to leave his part, a legacy of peace instead of the eternal cycle of violence, war, terrorism, racism, exploitation and bigotry that we must win. "As Member David in RelineIntroduction, "Mortenson goes to war with the causes of terror every time a student has the opportunity to get a balanced education, rather than an extremist Muslim school."

Three Cups of Tea is a unique adventure story, is memorable, remarkable and inspiring.

Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson and David Reline
Greg Mortenson is the director of the Central Asia Institute and Reline David is a journalist who travels the world
Penguin Group (USA) Inc., New York, New York,2006