Greg Mortenson

He has written inspiring best sellers, including "Three Cups of Tea," but are the stories all true? Steve Kroft investigates.

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[AdisaStrictlyBidness]

I truly looked up to him

I planned on saving money to

start schools such as he did after I graduated from high-school

and served a few years in the Marines

His shameful actions wont stop my dream of truly helping those in need of a fundamental education I refuse to live a selfish existence.

[Xpeacelovehappiness1]

Three Cups of BS

[TheGameMafias]

I got to that part and I was like: "If its too good to be true, then it is not true"

I continued reading, it didn't add up. Who takes their children to the place they were kidnapped by terrorists?

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[bathory777]

@thecraxyfirekid...right on ..its sad that he betrayed so many people's trust in the name of charity...krakauer has fully outed him in "three cups of deceit" tho great read

[thecrazyfirekid]

yea, it says he has built a lot of schools but they went to a few of the schools and most of them either didn't exist or were just empty

[thecrazyfirekid]

When I read the book as soon as he said that the terrorist let him go because he has a family, i stopped reading the book because that is 100% bullshit and if you believe it, that is batshit crazy

[bathory777]

@chris Boyle most of the sol called schools are empty . Are you really that ignorant ??? This guy is a fraud , most of the money he has collected never goes to educating the children. He spends it on himself. . I hope he rots in jail .

[Chris Boyle]

It's a bummer that you think that a man who built numerous schools for unprivileged children is selfish and shameful! Krakauer even says that the schools are there! maybe shutting them down will make you feel better!

[TheGreaterGood80]

It's rather sad to read comments from people who still desperately want to believe in Greg Mortenson the Education Messiah and who think that 60 Minutes is just doing a biased hatchet job for shits and giggles. From what I can tell, their investigative research is pretty sound. Greg looked pretty nervous and embarrassed at the end. And can anyone defend someone who is taken in as a guest, and then later writes that his hosts were violent Islamists? The Taliban didn't even exist in Pakistan then!

[kataisa3]

LOL Obama donated his Nobel Prize money to this guy --- from one fraud to another.