Here 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 D Here 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 Mountains. Moved By The Inhabitants Kindness, He Promised To Return And Build A School. Three Cups Of Tea Is The Story Of That Promise And Its Extraordinary Outcome. Over The Next Decade Mortenson Built Not Just One But Fifty-five Schools - Especially For Girls - In Remote Villages Across The Forbidding And Breathtaking Landscape Of Pakistan And Afghanistan, Just As The Taliban Rose To Power. His Story Is At Once A Riveting Adventure And A Testament To The Power Of The Humanitarian Spirit.