3 Cups of Tea.

By Greg Mortensen

Non Fiction is my favorite kind of book. Non Fiction inspires me. I love to read how others cope with adversity and challenge. I always hope that when things are down in my own life, I'll remember the stories I've read and feel better. Truth is, I usually don't remember them when I need to. But I still hope that one day I will.

This book is excellent and opened my eyes to life in Pakistan & Afghanastan.


From the Jacket

"The inspiring account of one man's campaign to build schools in the most dangerous, remote, and anti-American reaches of Asia

In 1993 Greg Mortenson was the exhausted survivor of a failed attempt to ascend K2, an American climbing bum wandering emaciated and lost through Pakistan's Karakoram Himalaya. After he was taken in and nursed back to health by the people of an impoverished Pakistani village, Mortenson promised to return one day and build them a school. From that rash, earnest promise grew one of the most incredible humanitarian campaigns of our time—Greg Mortenson's one-man mission to counteract extremism by building schools, especially for girls, throughout the breeding ground of the Taliban."