Friday, April 22, 2011

60 minutes of American Fiction

By Fatima Rizvi
Recently, the world was shocked to find out that Greg Mortenson's autobiography 'Three cups of Tea' was based on fabricated anecdotes of his exploits in remote areas of Afghanistan and Pakistan. Mortenson's heartwarming tale of how the simple mountain villagers in Korphe, Pakistan, saved his life after he got lost during a perilous descent of K2, the world's second highest peak; how he repaid their kindness by returning to build them a school; and how he was subsequently kidnapped for eight days by the Taliban are apparently not even close to the truth.

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