Aug 5, 2026 · 1 hr 52 min · 11 segments
In 1993, a desperate man stumbled into a remote village in the foothills of the Karakoram mountains. After the residents nursed him back to health, he placed his hands on the village elder's shoulders…
Michael HobbesHost
Peter ShamshiriHost
So the full name of this book is Three Cups of Tea, colon, One Man's Mission to Fight Terrorism One School at a Time.
As usual, we don't know the exact numbers, but I've heard one million, I've heard four million.
But the biggest thing is how much this was taken up by the international development sector.
He was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in either 2009 or 2010, [laughs] depending on the source.
And when, uh, Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2009, he donated $100,000 of his prize money to Greg Mortenson.
The opening of the book is Greg Mortenson, who is climbing K2, which is the second tallest mountain in the world.
So this book is written by Greg Mortenson, so the protagonist of the book, but it's written in the third person because it's also written by a magazine journalist named David Relin.
So the full name of this book is Three Cups of Tea, colon, One Man's Mission to Fight Terrorism One School at a Time.
As usual, we don't know the exact numbers, but I've heard one million, I've heard four million.
But the biggest thing is how much this was taken up by the international development sector.
He was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in either 2009 or 2010, [laughs] depending on the source.
And when, uh, Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2009, he donated $100,000 of his prize money to Greg Mortenson.
The opening of the book is Greg Mortenson, who is climbing K2, which is the second tallest mountain in the world.
So this book is written by Greg Mortenson, so the protagonist of the book, but it's written in the third person because it's also written by a magazine journalist named David Relin.
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