His story is at once a riveting adventure and a testament to the power of the humanitarian spirit. 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. Three Cups of Tea is the story of that promise and its extraordinary outcome. Three Cups of Tea is the true story of one of the most extraordinary humanitarian missions of our time. But rarely has there been anything quite as spectacular as this weeks fall from grace of Greg Mortenson, author of the wildly successful and until now highly revered memoir Three Cups of Tea. Moved by the inhabitants’ kindness, he promised to return and build a school.

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. In 1993, a young American mountain climber named Greg. Haji Ali, Korphe Village Chief, Karakoram mountains, Pakistan Three Cups of Tea is the true story of one of the most extraordinary humanitarian missions of our time.

‘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.’ OVER HALF A MILLION PAPERBACKS SOLD IN THE US since publication in 2007, 37 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list

Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson