Northshire Bookstore ReviewReviewed By... Nancy ScheemakerGreg Mortenson's 1993 mountaineering quest to climb Pakistan's mighty K2 nearly cost him his life. Lost, frozen, starving, and dehydrated, he stumbled into the remote mountain village of Korphe at harvest time, where he was surrounded by 50 children who immediately all took turns holding his large weathered hands. Mortenson's failed mission to leave his beloved sister's prayer beads at the peak of K2, ...
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