Three Cups of Tea

Greg Mortenson was a mountain climber who came to Pakistan to climb K-2 and leave a memorial to his sister on top. He failed to make it to the top. Instead, he accidentally wandered into a remote village and discovered his life's work, funding and founding schools, especially for Muslim girls.

Mortenson's story is inspiring, and in this dark world it is comforting to read such a tale. Yet, while reading the book, my skeptical brain kept buzzing my living-in-fantasy-world brain and reminding it that the story read like a script from a made-for-tv movie. Everyone that met Mortenson liked him. He and his wife met and married after knowing each other for four days. Mortenson and his family lived a life of deep poverty in order to send every possible penny to his schools. I hope this is an accurate story of Mortenson and his mission, yet I can't help but feel this is an account written by a fan, not a careful journalist.