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Chapter 6 Summary (pp 31-39)
Hard Way Home
1. Greg stayed in the city of Rawalpandi and got the cheapest
room possible. He d need to get everything
necessary, the materials to build a school.
2. Greg metAbdul Shah, the hotel watchman and told him that he
will build a school.
3.
Abdul offered to help Greg and said that they will bargain for
the materials very well.4. Greg and Abdul bought everything they
need such as lumber, cement, nails, hammers, saws, axes, shovels,
and
sheets of tin for the roof.
When store owners ask for high prices, Abdul argued with them,
told them that the supplied were for a school
being built as an act of charity.
5. Greg and Abdul went to a tailor to get two new sets of
shalwar kamizwhen the old shirt Greg was wearing
ripped from collar to hem.
6. Greg and Abdul went to the bazaar where all the supplied Greg
had bought
would be packed onto a truck, ready to drive to Korphe. A crowd
gathered to see the astonishing sight- a tall
foreign man in a new shalwar kamiz that was already dirty and
dusty, collecting supplied for a school for
Pakistani children.
7. Greg said good-bye to Abdul and climbed onto the truck and
waved. Abdul
said a prayer for his safe journey.
8. His journey was very dangerous. The climate was very cold as
they truck is climbing a mountain. (p. 34)
9. Greg arrived in Skardu and met Mohammed Ali Changazi.
Changazi made a living organizing tours and
mountain-climbing expeditions, getting people supplies and
workers they needed.
10.Changazi said that it was too late to build the school but he
still agreed to let Greg unload the truck and store
the supplies in his courtyard.
11.
Greg cleaned up and slept in Changazis office. The next morning,
he met Akhmalu, the man who had cooked
for his K2 expedition.
12.Akhmalu told Greg that there is a jeep waiting for them to go
to Khane village. Greg agreed to go because the
village people prepared food and he knew that the Balti people
did not have much food. Changazi went with
them as well.
13.In Khane, Greg was welcomed into the home of another old
acquaintance, Janjungpa, a porter from his
expedition to K2.
14.Janjungpa spoke to thank Greg for honoring them and coming to
build a school for Khane. Greg was shocked
because he did not promise to build them a school.
15.Akhmalu and Greg left and he stayed in Akhmalus house for the
night. The next morning, Greg insisted that
Chagazi get him back to Skardu before the arguments could begin
all over again. Chagazi agreed and promised
to take Greg to the place where the supplies for the school were
stored.
16.Changazi brought Greg to his home village called Kuardu.
There was a huge feast prepared for him. Greg was
wondering why he was brought there.
17.Changazi presented Greg to the village elders and said that
they have already agreed that the school will be
built in the village before winter. Greg was so angry that he
ran outside and cried.
18.When Greg finally stopped crying, he looked up to see several
children. Greg introduced himself to them and
spoke using the Balti language. Greg taught them English
words.
19.Changazi tried to talk to Greg about building the school in
his village but Greg demanded that Changazi take
him to Korphe.
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Chapter 9 Summary (pp 48-54)
Hunting Ibex
1. Greg got another ten thousand dollars from Jean Hoerni.
Hoerni wanted him to send a photo of the school once it
is finished.2. June 1995, Greg was back in Pakistan. He bought
all the materials needed to build a bridge and had asked the
seller to deliver it to Korphe.
3. Greg had to walk to Korphe because it was raining hard and
the jeep driver refused to continue on the muddy
road from Askole to Korphe.
4. Sakina took Gregs hand in welcome. He realized that it was
the first time a Balti woman had touched him. It is
against the tradition for a woman among the Balti to touch a man
who isn t related to her, even to shake hands.
Greg was becoming like family.
5. Greg went into the kitchen and Sakina was shocked. Greg
filled a pot with tea leaves and water, added a few
sticks of kindling to the fire, and put the tea on to boil.
6. Haji Ali told everyone gathering in the house that two jeeps
carrying the cable for the bridge had been stopped
by a rockslide about eighteen miles away from Korphe. He
suggested that every man in village carry the cale to
Korphe so that work on the bridge could begin at once.
Activity: Draw the Ibex hunt.
Chapter 10 Summary (pp 55-59)
Building Bridges
1.
The women took care of the crops in the fields as the men worked
on the bridge.2. Description of the warm summer months in Korphe.
What do the people live during these days? (p. 55)
3. Greg met George McCown, the board director of the American
Himalayan Foundation. AHF had sent him a
birthday card and Greg had to give it to McCown. It was McCowns
60thbirthday.
4. Greg gave McCown a roll of rupees and asked him to pay
everybody the money they were owed for their work
on the bridge.
5. In late August 1995, ten weeks after they had started, the
bridge was completed. Haji Ali offered Greg the last
piece of wood and asked him to lay it in place. But Greg
insisted that Korphes chief complete Korphes bridge.
6. Haji Ali raised the plank high over his head and thanked
Allah for the foreigner he d been kind enough to send
to this village. The women and children of Korphe should their
approval.
7.
Greg prepared to head back to California, where he would spend
the winter and spring earning enough money
to return to start building the school at last.
8. Hussein had offered to donate a field that his wife, Hawa
owned. The school could be built there. It had a clear
view of the mountain called Korphe 2, which Greg thought would
encourage students to aim high.
9. Greg wanted Hussein to become the schools first teacher.
10.Greg left Haji Ali enough money to hire workers from nearby
villages to cut stone and carry it on to Korphe.
They should be able to lay a foundation, or base, for the school
before Greg came back.
