3 Cups Of T

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Submitted by jacksht38 on June 24, 2009

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3 Cups Of T

Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time is a New York Times bestselling book by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin published by Penguin in 2006. The book describes Mortenson's overnight transition from a mountain-climber to a humanitarian committed to reducing poverty and educating girls in Pakistan and Afghanistan. The book's title comes from a Balti proverb:
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The book begins in 1993 as Greg Mortenson, an American nurse, seeks to honor his deceased sister's memory by attempting to climb K2, the world's second highest mountain, in the Karakoram range of northern Pakistan. After more than 70 days on the mountain, Greg and...

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