Caption: Jeff Glor outside ‘The CBS (Picture) Early Show’ in New York City. New York, USA ….
THREE CUPS OF TEA, the best-selling book by the author and mountaineer GREG MORTENSON, is “filled with inaccuracies”, according to a US news programme. ‘Three Cups of Tea’ follows the author’s mission to build schools across Central Asia but the Cbs ’60 Minutes’ report alleges that the schools do not exist.
The documentary also alleges that Mortenson made money from the charitable project. In an email sent out to his supporters before the programme aired on Sunday (17th April 2011), Mortenson says the report bases its accusations on a single year’s tax return to the US Internal Revenue Service, claiming that it, “paints a distorted picture using inaccurate information, innuendo and a microscopic focus on one year’s IRS 990 financial”. The book describes how Mortenson got lost while trekking in Pakistan, only to be rescued by residents of a remote village. The author claims that the encounter inspired him to build a number of schools but the ’60 Minutes’ investigation says that porters who met Mortenson dispute the claims that he was lost and that the schools do not exist or were built by other people.
GREG MORTENSON was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2009 and 2010 by several members of the U.S. Congress.
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