Three Cups Of Tea Donna Hay Publication Date: 01 Dec 2009

Publication Date: 01 Dec 2009

This diary began as Mum’s New Year’s resolution to get me to write

while the feeling most strengthened is that the book itself or some book on Algiers is called for

Though ruled by British overlords

anthropology

Three Cups Of Tea Donna Hay Publication Date: 01 Dec 2009HERE WE DRINK THREE CUPS OF TEA TO DO BUSINESS; THE FIRST YOU ARE A STRANGER, THE SECOND YOU BECOME A FRIEND, AND THE THIRD, YOU JOIN OUR FAMILY, AND FOR OUR FAMILY WE ARE PREPARED TO DO ANYTHING EVEN DIE. HAJI ALI, KORPHE VILLAGE CHIEF, KARAKORAM MOUNTAINS, PAKISTAN IN 1993, AFTER A TERRIFYING AND DISASTROUS ATTEMPT TO CLIMB K2, A MOUNTAINEER CALLED GREG MORTENSON DRIFTED, COLD AND DEHYDRATED, INTO AN IMPOVERISHED PAKISTAN VILLAGE IN THE KARAKORAM