' Here we drink three cups of tea to do business; the first you are a stranger the second you become a friend & the third you join our family & for our family we are prepared to do anything
- even die'
- Haji Ali Korphe Village Chief Karakoram mountains Pakistan. In 1993 after a terrifying & disastrous attempt to climb K2 a mountaineer called Greg Mortenson drifted cold & dehydrated into an impoverished Pakistan village in the Karakoram Mountains. Moved by the inhabitants' kindness he promised to return & build a school. Three Cups of Tea" is the story of that promise & 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 & breathtaking landscape of Pakistan & Afghanistan just as the Taliban rose to power. His story is at once a riveting adventure & a testament to the power of the humanitarian spirit."