Mortenson, a renowned mountain climber and the best-selling co-author of Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time" will speak at the CSU Moby Arena on August 31. Admission is free, but tickets are required, and there's more on that at Today @ Colorado State. Mortenson's lecture will focus on “Promoting Peace through Education," and while that topic doesn't directly bear on climate change, we'll be looking for lectures like these later in the semester to inform our final essay assignment.
Here's more on Mortenson's background from Today:
In 1993, to honor his sister’s memory, Mortenson climbed Pakistan’s K2, the world’s second highest mountain, in the Karakoram Range. After climbing K2, while recovering in a local village called Korphe, Mortenson met a group of children sitting in the dirt writing with sticks in the sand, and made a promise to help them build a school.
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