FROM THE HINDU KUSH: `HELLISH PLACE TO FIGHT A WAR'.(News)(IN THE NORTHWEST)

From: Seattle Post-Intelligencer | Date: September 21, 2001| Author: | Copyright information

Byline: JOEL CONNELLY P-I Columnist

Montana-based mountaineer Greg Mortenson has devoted eight intensely rewarding years to building schools and public health projects in precipitous, remote reaches of the Karakoram and Hindu Kush mountains of Kashmir and northern Pakistan.

The Central Asia Institute's founder-director hardly expected to find himself on the likely front lines of a 21st century American war.

He was there this week, listening to friends among Pakistani army officers, tribal elders and Muslim clerics.

In an e-mail sent Wednesday night from ...

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