He said Mortenson had visited Korphe nearly a year after his failed attempt to climb K2. But Jon Krakauer, the mountaineer and author of Into Thin Air, said one of Mortenson's companions told him that the tale of how the quest began was "a beautiful story" but "a lie". Mortenson wrote that he stumbled into the small village of Korphe in north-east Pakistan in 1993. The programme, aired in the US on Sunday, questioned some of the most dramatic incidents in the book. Mortenson took private jets to events where he was paid $30,000 to speak, according to the programme, and former associates accused him of using CAI as his own "private ATM". The programme alleged that Mortenson's charity, Central Asia Institute (CAI), spent more on book promotion and publicity than on building schools. But reporters for CBS's 60 Minutes programme visited almost 30 of the schools and claimed that roughly half were empty, built by someone else or not receiving any support.
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