Greg Mortenson

Greg Mortenson is an American humanitarian, professional speaker, writer, and former mountaineer. He is a cofounder and former executive director of the nonprofit Central Asia Institute, from which he was forced to resign as executive director following an investigation by the Montana attorney general, and the founder of the educational charity Pennies for Peace.

Mortsenson was born in 1957 in St. Cloud, Minnesota. His father, Irvin Dempsey and mother, Jerene, went with the Lutheran Church to Tanganyika in 1958 to be teachers in at a girls school in the Usambara mountains. In 1961, Dempsey became a fundraiser and development director for the Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Center, the first teaching hospital in Tanzania. Jerene was the founding principal of International School Moshi. Spending his early childhood and adolescence in Tanzania, Mortenson learned to speak fluent Swahili.

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