Current Affairs Reading Group: Three Cups of Tea September 23, 2009

'Three Cups of Tea' is the astonishing, uplifting story of a real-life Indiana Jones and his humanitarian campaign to use education to combat terrorism in the Taliban's backyard. Greg Mortenson was a homeless mountaineer who, following a 1993 climb of Pakistan's treacherous K2, became inspired by a chance encounter with impoverished mountain villagers and promised to build them a school. Over the next decade he built fifty-five schools--especially for girls--that offer a balanced education in one of the most isolated and dangerous regions on earth.