Dave over at Little Shop of Stories alerts us to an event that’s just too big for Little Shop to contain – so they’re taking it to Gaines Auditorium at Agnes Scott…

“Greg Mortenson, author of Three Cups of Tea: One Man’s Mission to Promote Peace One School At A Time, will be speaking at Gaines Auditorium on the Agnes Scott College campus at 1 p.m. on Wednesday, January 28th.

Greg will be launching two new associated books: a young reader’s edition of this best selling book and Listen to the Wind: The Story of Dr. Greg & Three Cups of Tea (a beautiful picture book). In 1993, Greg attempted to climb K2 and ended up lost and sick in the mountains of Pakistan. He wandered into a village where he was taken in by its residents and nursed back to health. Greg made a promise to these people that he would return someday and build the children of this village a school. And he did. Since then, Greg’s organizations, the Central Asia Institute and Pennies for Peace, have worked to build more than 70 schools in both Pakistan and Afghanistan and have brought educational opportunity to thousands and thousands of school aged children where before there was none.”

Little Shop has more details over on its own blog.