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A short book trailer describing the book, three cups of tea, by greg mortenson. Over the next decade mortenson built not just one but fiftyfive schools especially for girls in remote villages across the forbidding and breathtaking landscape of pakistan and afghanistan, just as the taliban rose to power. Three cups of tea young readers edition sweet on books. Three cups of tea in one awful day in 1993, greg mortenson high up in the worlds most inhospitable mountains, wandered lost and alone, broken in body and spirit, after a failed attempt to climb k2, the worlds deadliest peak. Three cups of tea about mortensons travels in afghanistan and pakistan to promote education for girls was the target of a scathing 60 minutes piece in.
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