Greg Mortenson is best known for Three Cups of Tea, co-written with David Oliver Relin, a non-fiction account of efforts to build schools in Pakistan and Afghanistan after a failed attempt to climb K2. The book combines travel, development work and personal narrative, presenting relationships with local communities as central to the school-building projects. Stones into Schools continues with further education initiatives in the region. Significant parts of Mortenson's published account were later challenged by journalists and became the subject of public controversy, while a 2012 Montana Attorney General investigation separately examined the management and financial practices of the Central Asia Institute. His books are therefore most usefully approached as development memoir and humanitarian non-fiction that also raise questions about verification and the reliability of inspirational narratives. Read more Less
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