An
Alphabetized List of Places That Mattered in Three Cups of Tea
4 Baltistan – the
mountainous area that includes such places as Korphe; this is the home of the
people known as the Balti
4 Bamberg, Germany – the location in West Germany near East Germany (the Communist Germany)
where Mortenson served in the United States Army
4 Bozeman, Montana – the place where
Mortenson and his family now live
4 Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri – the location of
Mortenson’s training camp when he joined the United States Army
4 Gilgit – a center for
supplies
4 Islamabad – a planned city in Pakistan with an American
embassy
4 Kabul – the capital of Afghanistan
4 K2 – the mountain that
Mortenson wanted to climb following the death of his sister Christa
4 Karakoram Highway – the route along which
Mortenson traveled with the materials for the first school
4 Karakoram Mountain
Range – a fairly impoverished (poor) area where Greg Mortenson received a warm
welcome from the villagers in Korphe
4 Korphe – the village
where Mortenson wound up after being lost for some time and where Mortenson
started to see abysmal (truly poor) living conditions
4 Moorhead, Minnesota – the location of Concordia College, the first college
Mortenson attended
4 New York – the “village” that
was “bombed”
4 Peshawar – the city that
Mortenson called the “capital of Pakistan’s wild west”
4 St. Paul – the small city in Minnesota where Mortensen
graduated from high school
4 Seattle – the home of Dr. Jean
Hoerni
4 Skardu – the valley
where the first school was built
4 Tanzania – the country in
eastern Africa where Mortenson spent
some of his childhood
4 University of California at San Francisco Medical Center emergency room – the
place where Mortenson was working when he wrote all of the letters
4 Vermillion, South Dakota – the location of the University of South Dakota, the college from which
Mortenson graduated
4 Waziristan – the area Mortenson
called the “most untamed of Pakistan’s Northwest Frontier
Provinces”; the home of the people known as the Wazir