Greg Mortenson | Greg Mortenson is the co-founder and executive director of the nonprofit Central Asia Institute (CAI). Since a 1993 climb on Pakistan's K2, the world’s second highest mountain, he has dedicated his life to promoting community-based education and literacy programs in remote mountain regions of Pakistan and Afghanistan. Despite many threats to his life and freedom, including an armed kidnapping, a firefight, and CIA investigations, he has labored fearlessly to establish 78 schools in rural and often volatile areas, providing education to over 28,000 children, including 18,000 girls. He also founded Pennies For Peace, a program that complements CAI’s work by encouraging young students from the US to donate money to Pakistani and Afghan children for their education. He is the co-author of the #1 New York Times best-seller, Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace...One School At A Time.
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