Three Cups of Tea

Three Cups for Tea is the true story of Greg Mortensen who in 1993, failed to summit a mountain but ended up building schools in the most impoverished areas of Pakistan and eventually Afghanistan. Greg Mortensen, an avid American mountaineer, fails to find success on K2, descends exhausted and lost, and finds his way to a local village in which the people welcome him and take care of him. After witnessing their poverty, he leaves promising to come back and build them a school.