Chapter 1 Summary of Three Cups of Tea

Failure Failure, chapter one, in threesome Cups of Tea, by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin, tells ab out(a) a earthly concerns compassion and determination through and through life, and the obstacles that would ultimately lead to his failure. Greg Mortenson was born into a compassionate family that greatly cared for the welfare of others. being a kind man who loves his family, he maintains a close relationship with his sister, Christa, who suffers from shop at seizures.Mortenson, twelve years her senior, appointed himself her protector. later his sisters untimely death, Mortenson sets out on an expedition to scale the indorsement highest Summit in the world, and in monastic order to honor his sisters reminiscence by leaving her necklace at the peak. During his move around to the top, Mortenson without hesitation assists in the exhausting speech of a fellow mountaineer, Etienne Fine. After the present the severe and treacherous conditions had left him anaemic and una ble to go on.Due to this selfless influence Mortenson is forced to give up his stargaze to reach the top, when he was merely 600 meters away. He goes on to describe his experience as agonizing, his deep wounds from the rescue unbearable, and his painful shadow of sleeping on jagged abrasive rocks alone. He States, It was his body that had failed, he decided, not his spirit, and every body had its limits (16). Mortensons restrictions had neutered his determination and though he had failed he had learned a lot round his own mental and physical limits in life.