'60 Minutes' questions validity of 'Three Cups of Tea' by Greg Mortenson

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'60 Minutes' questions validity of 'Three Cups of Tea' by Greg Mortenson

Apr 18 2011

Yesterday, the CBS documentary "60 Minutes" ran a 15 minute piece that called into question some of the work of Greg Mortenson's Central Asia Institute and charged that some key sections of his bestselling memoir Three Cups of Tea are untrue. View the broadcast, and read Mortenson's initial response

Update 4/18: An expose by Jon Krakauer, available for free at Byliner for the next 24 hours.

Update 4/19: Mortenson responds

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