You can also visit the Central Asia Institute's website to read more about the organization, their current projects, similar organizations and projects, and even make your own contribution to the CAI: http://www.ikat.org/. I challenge you to match (or exceed!) my donation of $25.00.
A few of my favorite quotes from the book...
"I used to assume that the direction of 'progress' was somehow inevitable, not to be questioned," she writes. "I passively accepted a new road through the middle of the park, a steel-and-glass bank where a 200-year-old church had stood... and the fact that life seemed to get harder and faster with each day. I do not anymore. In Ladakh I have learned that there is more than one path into the future and I have had the privilege to witness another, saner, way of life - a pattern of existance based on the coevolution between human beings and the earth." Helena Norberg-Hodge, p. 112
Let nothing perturb you, nothing frighten you. All things pass. God does not change. Patience achieves everything. Mother Teresa, p. 225
"While most of us are trying to scale new peaks," Lowe told an audience of climbers, "Greg has quietly been moving even greater mountains on his own. What he has accomplished, with pure tenacity and determination, is incredible. His kind of climb is one we should all attempt." Alex Lowe, at the time perhaps the world's most respected alpinist, introducing Mortenson at a Montana fundraiser, p. 229
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