This is really Sad if the 60min. report is accurate, but one can say not surprising, we americans seem to flock to the false no matter who it hurts in the long run and while he has brought the plight of the girls and women in that region into the public meme's he's also damaged that same message as he reaps the personal wealth!!
April 18, 2011 - For years now, the youth edition of Minnesota-born author Greg Mortenson's "Three Cups of Tea" has been a popular part of fifth-grade teacher Nancy Glades' class at Eisenhower School in Hopkins.
This year, her kids raised $862.02 for Mortenson's school-building charity because they were so inspired by his tale of a failed mountain climb leaving him dehydrated in a Pakistani village, where he was nursed back to health and vowed to repay the kindness by building a school.
Now, a "60 Minutes" report accuses Mortenson of fabricating part of that memoir, citing sources who say he actually first visited the village of Korphe nearly a year after trying to climb K2.
The CBS News show said it went to nearly 30 of the 54 schools Mortenson's charity has built in Afghanistan and roughly half were empty, built by someone else or not receiving support.
It also reported that financial records appear to show that the charity uses contributions to pay for Mortenson to travel on speaking and book promotion tours, but doesn't share in his speaking fees or book profits. {continued}
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