Fighting terrorism, one cup of tea at a time
Three Cups of Tea steeps the reader in nonconventional wisdom about the Islamic world. The book starts with the spiralling descent of an American climber. In 1993, Greg Mortenson scrubbed an attempt on K2, the world’s second-highest peak. He stumbled broken and haggard out of the Himalaya and into the isolated Pakistani village of Korphe. Locals gently nursed him back to health. Seeing their poverty, Mortenson made a life-altering vow. He returned to the United States, lived like a monk in his beater car, and eventually scraped together $12,000 to build a school for Korphe’s kids.