Three Cups of Tea disputed

If Americans could understand honesty, plastic tits wouldn't exist.

This whole thing sucks. Even if he has 65% truth to what he has been trying to do and accomplishing results, then I'm happy. And maybe he can clean it up now going forward. He was a big hero to me, and it hurts my heart to think he has done bad.

From his base in Haji Ali’s home, Mortenson settled into a
routine. Each morning and afternoon he would walk briefly
about Korphe, accompanied, as always, by children tugging
at his hands…. Off the Baltoro, out of danger, he realized just
how precious his own survival had been, and how weakened
he’d become. He could barely make it down the switchback
path that led to the river…. Wheezing his way back up to the
village, he felt as infirm as the elderly men who sat for hours
at a time under Korphe’s apricot trees, smoking from hookahs
and eating apricot kernels. After an hour or two of poking
about each day he’d succumb to exhaustion and return to stare
at the sky from his nest of pillows by Haji Ali’s hearth.

http://outsideonline.com/adventure/travel-ga-greg-mortenson-interview-sidwcmdev_155690.html?page=3

Q: But you stand by the Korphe story as it was written?

Mortenson: Well, there are discrepancies that, again, have to do with compression of events.




Q: Still, there are clear discrepancies between that version and what’s in Three Cups of Tea. In the book, you’re described as being in Korphe overnight, but now you think you were really there only a few hours. In the book, it says you went back to Korphe as soon as you could, and it’s during this second trip that you and Hajj Ali talk about you building a school there someday. When did that actually happen?

Mortenson: The second scene in Korphe about building a school happened in September 1994, a year later.

Q: Then there was quite a bit of literary compression going on. You entered the village in September 1993, but you went back a year later, not a few days later, and talked about the school?

Mortenson: That’s correct.

Graniteclimber, look into another book of his (not mountain or Mormon related) and you'll find controversy regarding taking down an American hero. Trust me on this one.

Endnote 1 to the Byliner article.

"According to Three Cups of Tea (pages 10 and 44), Mortenson
was an accomplished mountaineer who, before attempting
K2, had made “half a dozen successful Himalayan ascents,”
including climbs of 24,688-foot Annapurna IV and 23,389-
foot Baruntse, both of which are in Nepal. But there is no
record in the American Alpine Journal (which meticulously
documents all ascents of Annapurna IV, Baruntse, and other
major Himalayan peaks) of Mortenson reaching the summit
of, or even attempting, any Himalayan mountain prior to
1993. Scott Darsney, Greg’s climbing partner on K2, confirms
that Mortenson had never been to the Himalaya or Karakoram
before going to K2."