For when you step upon yourself, sacrificing your own needs
The sky shall come, present itself, beneath your humble feet.
(Rahman Baba, 1650 – 1715 A.D)
In 1993, Greg Mortenson stumbled his way across Korphe – a village high up in the Karakoram mountains after a failed attempt to climb K2. The villagers took him in and nursed him back to health over a few weeks in which he came to learn more about his benefactors and their harsh lives. His encounters with the village children, watching them practice their school lessons by writing with a stick in the dirt motivated him to help in his own way. A trauma nurse by profession, Greg treated the impoverished villagers on occasion for their minor ailments – thus earning himself the name Doctor Greg. The village chief, Haji Ali acted as his main host and over the course of his stay they developed a friendship based on mutual respect and the desire to improve the lives of those around them.
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