Mortenson

Mortenson is a living hero to rural communities of Afghanistan and Pakistan, where he has gained the trust of Islamic leaders, military commanders and tribal chiefs from his tireless effort to champion education, especially for girls.

Greg Mortenson biography 2009

Greg Mortenson is the founder of nonprofit Central Asia Institute www. ikat.org and co-author of New York Times bestseller ‘Three Cups of Tea’ www. threecupsoftea.com

Greg Mortenson biography 2009

Mortenson is an advocate of girls’ education as one of the major solutions to bring economic development, peace and prosperity to impoverished societies, and says, "you can hand out condoms, drop bombs, build roads, or put in electricity, but until the girls are educated a society won’t change".

Greg Mortenson biography 2009

By the time we're a few pages in, I'm completely lost as to what happened when and if Mortenson is alone on K2 or not.

A writing blog - June 6th, 2008 julieandrews 2008

Mortenson is the son of missionaries who grew up in Tanzania where his parents built a teaching hospital.

Vitro Nasu » 2006 » August 2006

Answering by delivering what his country will not, Mortenson is "fighting the war on terror the way I think it should be conducted," Relin writes.

Three Cups of Tea: Summary and book reviews of Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson. 2006

Mortenson is doing, providing the poorest students with a balanced education, is making them much more difficult for the extremist madrassas to recruit.

Three Cups of Tea: Summary and book reviews of Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson. 2006

Mortenson is the son of missionaries who grew up in Tanzania where his parents built a teaching hospital.

The Homeless Saint 2006

Do Afghanis such as Mortenson's students figure into the U.S. strategy?

Cynthia P. Schneider: Reading the (Three Cups of) Tea Leaves on the Afghan Strategy 2009

Do Afghanis such as Mortenson's students figure into the U.S. strategy?

The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Cynthia P. Schneider 2009