One day in 1993, high up in the world's most inhospitable mountains, Greg Mortenson wandered lost and alone, broken
in body and spirit, after a failed attempt to climb K2, the world's deadliest peak. When the people of an impoverished
village in Pakistan's Karakoram Himalaya took him in and nursed him back to health, Mortenson made an impulsive
promise: He would return one day and build them a school. Although he was a homeless "climbing bum" living out of his
aging Buick in Berkeley, California, Mortenson sold what few possessions he had to launch one of the most remarkable
humanitarian campaigns of our time."
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