Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson
On a 1993
expedition to climb K2 in honor of his sister Christa, who had died of epilepsy
at 23, Mortenson stumbled upon a remote mountain village in Pakistan. Out
of gratitude for villagers' assistance when he was lost and near death, he vowed
to build a school for the children who were scratching lessons in the dirt.
Raised by his missionary parents in Tanzania, Mortenson was used to dealing with
exotic cultures and developing nations. Still, he faced daunting
challenges of raising funds, death threats from enraged mullahs, separation from
his family, and a kidnaping to eventually build 55 schools in Taliban territory.
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Jeannette Wall's father always
called her "Mountain Goat" and there's perhaps no more apt nickname for a girl
who navigated a sheer and towering cliff of childhood both daily and stoically.
Wall Chronicles her upbringing at the hands of eccentric, nomadic parents--Rose
Mary, her frustrated artist mother, and Rex, her alcoholic father.
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