Mortenson, Greg – The Bell Bookshop https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk Henley-on-Thames Sat, 22 Jun 2024 11:12:28 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cropped-Bell-Background-Blue-32x32.png Mortenson, Greg – The Bell Bookshop https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk 32 32 Three Cups Of Tea https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/product/three-cups-of-tea/ Thu, 03 Jan 2008 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/product/three-cups-of-tea/ ‘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.

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