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

Copyright © 2011 by Jon Krakauer

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Cover photograph: The school at Bozai Gumbaz,

Wakhan Corridor, Afghanistan, February 10, 2011

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ISBN:  978-1-61452-001-6

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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