Bozeman’s Greg Mortenson Honored by Outside Magazine For His Story of Mountain Climbing as One of the Top 10 Adventure Stories of the Decade

“Never has the failure to climb a mountain led to such success.”

Outside magazine has selected humanitarian Greg Mortenson, of Bozeman, and the story of his work promoting education in remote mountain areas of Pakistan and Afghanistan as the “Top Adventure Story of the Decade.”

“Never has the failure to climb a mountain led to such success,” Joe Spring wrote on the magazine’s Web posting of the top 10 stories of the decade.

Spring was referring to Mortenson’s failed attempt to climb K2 in 1993 and his subsequent recuperation in a tiny village in northern Pakistan, which led to his promise that he would return to build the villagers a school.

Mortenson had to overcome numerous financial and logistical hurdles n later chronicled in his book, “Three Cups of Tea” http://www.threecupsoftea.com/ to get that first school built. But he got it done, and went on to establish 131 schools in that increasingly volatile part of the world through his Bozeman-based nonprofit Central Asia Institute.

By KARIN RONNOW Chronicle Staff Writer

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