In 1993, Greg Mortenson was a climber and was returning from an attempted climb of K2. He was lost and ended up in a small village in Pakistan. The villagers helped Greg, and he realized that the village did not have a school. This began his mission to build schools in small villages in Asia. Greg returned to the US and lived out of his car in order to save money to build a school.
Greg is now head of the Central Asia Institute and has built fifty-five schools in remote villages. He has a special interest in educating girls. Harpeth Hall has chosen this book as the All-School Read for the Upper School this summer. Greg is a true humanitarian and should be a model for all of us. When you read this book, you will realize that one person truly can make a difference.
Greg's website
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I recently read this book and found it inspirational and humbling at the same time. It was such a wonderful glimpse into one of these eastern cultures with which the united states is always struggling to understand and control. However, one man, in this case the author, can make a difference in this remote part of the world and he does. Greg Mortenson is a man who truly lives his principles.
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