Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time

By (author): "David Oliver Relin, Greg Mortenson"
Publish Date: March 2nd 2006
Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time
ISBN0143038257
ISBN139780143038252
AsinThree Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time
CharactersGreg Mortenson, Syed Abbas, Ali, Sarah Bishop
Original titleThree Cups of Tea
The inspiring account of one man's campaign to build schools in the most dangerous, remote, and anti-American reaches of Asia.In April 2011, the CBS documentary "60 Minutes" called into question Greg Mortenson's work. The program alleged inaccuracies in Three Cups of Tea and its sequel, Stones into Schools as well as financial improprieties in the operation of Mortenson's Central Asia Institute. Questions were also raised about Mortenson's claim that he got lost near K2 and ended up in Korphe; that he was captured by the Taliban in 1996; the number of schools the CAI claimed to have built and whether CAI funds had been used appropriately for Mortenson's book tours. View the broadcast. Jon Krakauer, who had supported the CAI to the tune of $75,000, also questioned Mortenson's accounts and released his allegations in a lengthy article titled Three Cups of Deceit