Bozeman, Montana based ‘Three Cups of Tea’ author, Greg Mortenson finds new mountains to climb

Globe-trotting humanitarian Greg Mortenson, co-author of the best-selling memoir Three Cups of Tea: One Man’s Mission to Promote Peace … One School at a Time http://www.matr.net/click.php?id=&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ikat.org%2F , keeps a reminder pasted to his bathroom mirror back home in Bozeman, Mont.: "When your heart speaks, take good notes."

Mortenson’s own heart started hollering 15 years ago, when the exhausted mountaineer lost his way in northeastern Pakistan’s untrammeled Karakoram Range. After stumbling nearly 60 miles down a glacier to the Muslim hamlet of Korphe — where he was welcomed as the first foreigner the 400 villagers had encountered — he watched local children substitute mud-coated sticks for pencils in an apricot orchard that served as their only classroom.

By Laura Bly, USA TODAY

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