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Friday, August 01, 2008 --- 34 days ago http://www.wickedlocal.com/easton/homepage/x380000691/-Three-Cups-of-Tea-author-
 Members of the incoming Class of 2012 will be reading Greg Mortenson’s “Three Cups of Tea” in the coming months as a summer assignment. When they return to the college for the fall semester, they will have an opportunity to hear directly from Mortenson himself when he visits the campus Friday, Sept. 12. The back cover of “Three Cups of Tea,” the summer reading assignment for the Stonehill College Class of 2012, hails Greg Mortenson as “a real-life Indiana Jones.” That’s no sales pitch. The guy’s got more Indiana in him than Harrison Ford, a heart bigger than The Hulk, and a will that Superman couldn’t break. But more impressive than his bravado is his compassion for the Muslims who live in the heart of what Americans consider Taliban country — the Pakistani caverns and mountains where U.S. troops searched for Osama bin Laden. Everything about Mortenson is larger than life, and his story, told by journalist David Oliver Relin, is the stuff of movies. In the Karakoram mountain range, Pakistan in 1993, Mortenson, a hulking six-foot-four bear of a man, lay exhausted on a slab of glacial rock on K2-the world’s second-tallest mountain. With its bottomless crags and nickle-thin ledges, K2 is more challenging than Everest, according to many climbers. After 70 days climbing, Mortenson and his partners were exhausted to the point of near-hallucination when the altitude brought one of the men to near-death. Mortenson gave up his dream of reaching t ... |
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