IRP Post #6

After we are told about what happened in the village, Mortenson heads back to the states. While there he puts off the funding for he school. He finds a stuffed animal and thinks back to when he was younger. He was born in Minnesota, but then his parents brought their children to Tanzania, where he live for a majority of his childhood and he was the happiest there. When they moved back everything was unfamiliar to him and people bullied him terribly at the high school for how kind he was to everyone. We are told of how when his youngest sister was born he took care of her because he was so concerned of her health condition, his care for her inspires him to do many of the things he did, like become a nurse and care for the struggling children in Pakistan.
When he was older his father got cancer, making him consider time as more important because within months his father deteriorated and he insisted on doing whatever would be best to make his father feel better. After that he decided to venture out more and moved to California and took up mountain climbing, he became very skilled in a short amount of time. While living in California, his youngest sister, Christa, died from a seisure, inspiring him to take her bracelet to the summmit of K2, the second highest point of elevation on earth.

I noticed while reading this section that there are many similarities in The Motorcycle Diaries. Like Ernesto, he decided on a whim to leave his successful life behind in a medical career to venture out. Mortenson even had an unreliable way of transportation, which he called "La Bamba". Similar to the Motorcycle Diaries, as well, people take him into their homes without question, like when Mortenson arrived in the village he was mistaken for Korphe.
I wonder if all travel/ adventure memoirs happen in the same sort of way. So far they seem similar in these ways.

The Tibeten butter tea that Mouzafar made for him, a delicacy to them.