You may be wondering what it has to do with hiking?
First, learn a bit about Greg Mortinson.
"A dazed climber descending from a failed attempt on K2, got lost, stumbling into a remote village."
Greg Mortenson is the co-founder of nonprofit Central Asia Institute www.ikat.org , founder of Pennies For Peace www.penniesforpeace.org , and co-author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Three Cups of Tea www.threecupsoftea.com , and author of the bestsellerStones into Schools www.stonesintoschools.com.
In 2009, Mortenson received Pakistan’s
highest civil award, Sitara-e-Pakistan
(“Star of Pakistan”) for his dedicated
and humanitarian effort to promote
education and literacy in rural
areas for fifteen years.
highest civil award, Sitara-e-Pakistan
(“Star of Pakistan”) for his dedicated
and humanitarian effort to promote
education and literacy in rural
areas for fifteen years.
This guy has done more by himself to help Pakistan than all the hundreds of millions spent by the U.S. government. I love the title of this article: He Fights Terror With Books I highly recommend his first book.
"Never has the failure to climb a mountain
led to such success. After Greg Mortenson
failed to climb K2 in 1993 to honor his
dead sister, he picked a new mountain. He
raised enough money so a small village in
Pakistan could build their own school.
In 2006 he published Three Cups of Tea, a
book chronicling his journey. By 2009 he
had supported more than 131 schools in
Pakistan and Afghanistan. At a time when
U.S. foreign policy is governed by military
might that includes Shock and Awe and a
flock of high-altitude drones, Greg Mortenson
took a simpler, gentler approach. He traveled
on rugged roads to small villages—in the same
remote regions where the United States
dropped bombs from unseen and unheard planes
high in the sky—to deliver cash so locals could
build schools from stones and have basic
supplies for their children. He took the war
against violence out of the sky and put it in
the hands of young girls on the ground. "
Outside – The Top 10 Adventure Stories of the Decade
led to such success. After Greg Mortenson
failed to climb K2 in 1993 to honor his
dead sister, he picked a new mountain. He
raised enough money so a small village in
Pakistan could build their own school.
In 2006 he published Three Cups of Tea, a
book chronicling his journey. By 2009 he
had supported more than 131 schools in
Pakistan and Afghanistan. At a time when
U.S. foreign policy is governed by military
might that includes Shock and Awe and a
flock of high-altitude drones, Greg Mortenson
took a simpler, gentler approach. He traveled
on rugged roads to small villages—in the same
remote regions where the United States
dropped bombs from unseen and unheard planes
high in the sky—to deliver cash so locals could
build schools from stones and have basic
supplies for their children. He took the war
against violence out of the sky and put it in
the hands of young girls on the ground. "
Outside – The Top 10 Adventure Stories of the Decade
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