# Three Cups Of Tea

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- Book: [Three Cups Of Tea](https://www.bookquiver.com/greg-mortenson/three-cups-of-tea) ([Three Cups Of Tea.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/greg-mortenson/three-cups-of-tea.md))
- Authors: [Greg Mortenson](https://www.bookquiver.com/greg-mortenson)
- Publisher: Penguin
- ISBN: 978-01-4103-426-3
- Pages: 368
- Published: 2008-01-03
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

‘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.’ Haji Ali, Korphe Village Chief, Karakoram mountains, Pakistan 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. Moved by the inhabitants’ kindness, he promised to return and build a school. Three Cups of Tea is the story of that promise and 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 and breathtaking landscape of Pakistan and Afghanistan, just as the Taliban rose to power. His story is at once a riveting adventure and a testament to the power of the humanitarian spirit.