Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace One school at a Time

by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin

Greg's story begins on K2 in the Balti region of Pakistan as a great mountain climbing survival tale. But this is not the most exciting part of the book. We learn that the same qualities that make a successful climber also enable Greg to overcome obstacles to build a one room school in remote Northern Pakistan. He survives fatwas issued by mullahs and kidnapping in Waziristan. He succeeds by being a completely genuine citizen of this earth. He then works on, from his basement in Bozeman, to establish the Central Asia Institute that has built 64 schools in Afghanistan and Pakistan as well as created vocational opportunities and libraries for the women in these villages. Yes, all this, while the Taliban and Al-Qaeda were also on the move in a region where Americans are mostly feared and hated. This book is truly inspirational and hopeful in a time when good news is hard to find.

Cris Wilson