Brief Summary Of Greg Mortenson's Return To Pakistan

In 1993 after a failed attempt to climb K2, the world’s second-highest mountain, in an attempt to honor his deceased sister, Greg Mortenson became lost in the Karakoram Mountains in Pakistan. He eventually stumbled into the remote village of Korphe, where he was nursed back to health by the village chief, Haji Ali’s family and treated kindly by the inhabitants. After Mortenson seeing the village’s school, a nonexistent building where students wrote with sticks in the ground without a teacher to even instruct them, he made a rash promise to return to Korphe one day and repay their kindness by building a school there. Back in the U.S., Mortenson quietly returned to his job as a trauma nurse in California. He kept his belongings in a storage unit and lived out of the car he inherited from his grandmother in an effort to save money …show more content…
Mortenson’s difficulties with organization and communication begin to strain his relations with the CAI board members, and he goes through a bout of desolation. His spirits improve, however, when Tara gives birth to their second child, a son they name Khyber for the Khyber Pass. Not long after Mortenson returns to Pakistan with a more professional approach and a renewed sense of mission. He realizes that political conditions are worsening in Pakistan and Afghanistan, due to radical Muslim groups that build their own schools, called madrassas. These schools offered free education to boys, but teach radical islam and often use the opportunity to enlist the students into the military. On September 11, 2001, while Mortenson is dedicating a school in Pakistan, the terrorist attack the World Trade Center and Pentagon. Believing that terrorism is rooted in poverty and lack of opportunity, Mortenson speaks out to reporters but his message receives little