Greg Mortenson An Adventurous Man That Had His Life Changed

Greg Mortenson was an adventurous man that had his life dramatically changed once his sister had passed away of an epileptic seizure while he was in college. His life was all but average as he spent most of his childhood growing up in East Africa, although being born in Minnesota. He grew up desensitized to other cultures, religions, and races which would be a major factor in his future plans. After his sister died, for her honor, he had decided to climb the K2 mountain located on the Pakistan-Chinese border. While he certainly made a good attempt, he was starving, cold, ill-prepared and inevitably failed to put his sisters necklace at the top of the treacherous mountain. After several times of losing and finding his guide, he was finally able to make it back to the bottom of the mountain where he ended up in the wrong village named Korphe. He originally leaves the village but quickly returns to the due to the fact they were friendly enough to allow him to sleep in their village, eat one of their rams and drink tea with them which is a sign of friendship/respect. He returns the favor by using some of his medical supplies to assist a woman giving birth in the village. He then ran across a couple boys attempting to learn how to write by using sticks and drawing in the sand. This had moved him and his goal of climbing K2 no longer mattered. Instead, he decided he would build a school in the village of Korphe in order to bring the children education and this, he thought