Khane
Encyclopedia
Khane is a village in Baltistan
, Pakistan
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Jon Krakauer
, the author of Into Thin Air
, said that Greg Mortenson
, author of Three Cups of Tea
, originally planned to build a school in Khane. To support his point, he referred to a 1994 newsletter of the American Himalayan Foundation
, where Mortenson asked for funds to build a school in Khane. Instead Mortenson built his school in Korphe
.
Baltistan
Baltistan , also known as بلتیول བལིུལ་ in the Balti language, is a region in northern Pakistan which forms Gilgit-Baltistan, bordering the Xinjiang Autonomous Region of China. In addition, a part of Baltistan also falls into Jammu and Kashmir of India. It is situated in the Karakoram mountains...
, Pakistan
Pakistan
Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...
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Jon Krakauer
Jon Krakauer
Jon Krakauer is an American writer and mountaineer, primarily known for his writing about the outdoors and mountain-climbing...
, the author of Into Thin Air
Into Thin Air
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster is a 1997 bestselling non-fiction book written by Jon Krakauer. It details the author's presence at Mount Everest during the 1996 Mount Everest disaster when eight climbers were killed and several others were stranded by a 'rogue storm'...
, said that Greg Mortenson
Greg Mortenson
Greg Mortenson, SPk is an American humanitarian, professional speaker, writer, and former mountaineer. He is the co-founder and executive director of the non-profit Central Asia Institute as well as the founder of the educational charity Pennies for Peace...
, author of Three Cups of Tea
Three Cups of Tea
Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time is a book by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin published by Penguin in 2006. For four years, the book remained on the New York Times nonfiction bestseller's list...
, originally planned to build a school in Khane. To support his point, he referred to a 1994 newsletter of the American Himalayan Foundation
American Himalayan Foundation
The American Himalayan Foundation is a US non-profit organization that helps Tibetans, Sherpas, and Nepalis living throughout the Himalayas. AHF builds schools, plants trees, trains doctors, funds hospitals, takes care of children and the elderly, and restores sacred sites...
, where Mortenson asked for funds to build a school in Khane. Instead Mortenson built his school in Korphe
Korphe
Korphe is a small subsistence farming village in northeastern Pakistan, situated at the foot of the Karakorum mountain range along the banks of the Braldu River....
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