Three Cups of Deceit: How Greg Mortenson, Humanitarian Hero, Lost His Way

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THREE CUPS
of
DECEIT

 

 

 

How Greg Mortenson, Humanitarian Hero,

 

Lost His Way

 

 

 

Jon Krakauer

 

 

 

BYLINER ORIGINALS

 

 

Dramatis Personae

 

 

 

Greg Mortenson:
Executive director and co-founder of the Central Asia Institute (CAI); co-author of
Three Cups of Tea
; author of
Stones into Schools

 

David Oliver Relin:
Co-author of
Three Cups of Tea

 

Christa Mortenson:
Greg

s youngest sister, who died in 1992

 

Mouzafer Ali:
Resident of Pakistan

s Baltistan region whom Mortenson hired to carry his backpack from the base of K2 to the village of Askole in September 1993

 

Haji Ali:
Chieftain of a Balti village called Korphe, located across the Braldu River from Askole

 

Scott Darsney:
Greg Mortenson

s climbing partner on K2 in 1993

 

Yakub:
Friend of Mouzafer Ali whom Darsney hired to carry his backpack from the base of K2 to the village of Askole in 1993

 

Akhmalu:
Expedition cook for Greg Mortenson and his teammates on K2 in 1993; shortly after the expedition ended, Mortenson visited Akhmalu

s village, Khane, and promised to build a school there

 

Erica Stone:
Executive director of the American Himalayan Foundation

 

Jean Hoerni
: Theoretical physicist and co-founder of CAI who gave Greg Mortenson $12,000 in 1994 to build his first school in Pakistan, and in 1996 donated $1 million to CAI

 

Mohammed Ali Changazi:
Tour operator and trekking agent who managed the logistics for Mortenson

s 1993 K2 expedition; adopted son of Haji Ali

 

Tara Bishop:
Greg Mortenson

s wife, a clinical psychologist; the daughter of Barry Bishop

 

Naimat Gul Mahsud:
A member of the Mahsud
tribe
who met Mortenson in the Pakistani city of Rawalpindi in July 1996 and, at Mortenson

s request, drove him to Ladha, South Waziristan, the Mahsud ancestral homeland, where he was Mortenson

s host

 

Mansur Khan Mahsud:
Director of research at the FATA Research Centre who accompanied Mortenson on sightseeing excursions in South Waziristan in July 1996, during the period Mortenson claims the Taliban held him captive

 

Sangi Marjan:
Commissioner of education in Ladha, South Waziristan, who met with Mortenson in July 1996 to discuss education in Pakistan

s Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA)

 

Hussein Mohammed:
Pseudonym of a member of the Mahsud tribe who is acquainted with Naimat Gul Mahsud

 

Jennifer Wilson:
Jean Hoerni

s third wife, who served on the CAI board of directors from 1997 to 2001

 

Tom Vaughan:
Chairman of CAI

s board of directors, 1997

2001

 

Tom Hornbein:
American physician and mountaineer renowned for making the first ascent of the West Ridge of Mount Everest in 1963; invited to join the CAI board in
1999,
he became its chairman in 2001 and resigned in 2002

 

Barry Bishop:
Tara Bishop

s father; Tom Hornbein

s teammate on Everest in 1963

 

Gordon Wiltsie:
Eminent photographer and mountaineer, member of the CAI board of directors, 1998

2002

 

Sally Uhlmann:
Businesswoman and member of the CAI board of directors, 2000

2002

 

King Zaher Shah:
King of Afghanistan 1933

1973, who died in 2007

 

Sadhar Khan:
Powerful warlord, or
qomandan
, in the northern Afghanistan province of Badakhshan

 

Mostapha Zaher:
Grandson of King Zaher Shah

 

Debbie Raynor:
Chief financial officer of CAI, 2003

2004

 

Daniel Borochoff:
President of the American Institute of Philanthropy, a charity watchdog organization

 

Ghulam Parvi:
CAI

s program manager in Pakistan, 1996

June 2010

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