Central Asia Institute--Greg Mortenson--Three Cups of Tea



I haven't read Three Cups of Tea, but I just listened to Stones Into Schools (10 CD Audio Book) and it was impressive.  What a great idea.





The guy was a climber that failed to reach the top of K2, wandered into this high altitude village all messed up from his misadventures climbing and after a brief interlude with the locals, goes on an insane mission to build schools in the most remote locations in Pakistan and then Afghanistan.  And even better, the goal of the schools is to educate girls where the Taliban wants to repress them in the most ridiculous ways you've ever heard of.  The Central Asia Institute is the non-profit he started and continues to build schools with.  Totally worth the time; the version I listened to was read by Atossa Leoni and I thought that was a great job of casting--if someone told me I would enjoy 10 CDs worth of audio book read by the woman that starred in 'The Kite Runner' I would've laughed, but here I am recommending it.  Inspiring and it will give you a very unique look into a part of the world cameras are not capturing.  You think the bottom of the oceans are Earth's only undiscovered territories at this point?  Read this and you'll change your mind.  Give the CAI some money--they are trying to educate women in earthquake-resistant schools in a part of the world that is in disarray.