three cups of tea

I recently read Three Cups of Tea, an amazing true story about a mountain climber who, after becoming lost on his way down from K-2 stumbles upon a remote village in the Pakistani mountains and befriends the villagers in the 1990's. He returns to the U.S., works as an ER nurse and saves every extra penny, even living in his car in his pursuit to build a school for this village. I won't give it all away, but he succeeds in a major way. This is also really fascinating because he was in the northern Pakistan mountains at the time the Taliban came into the international consciousness.