When Dana Mortenson visits schools, she asks a deceivingly simple question: What kind of learner are you growing?
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This comes after state investigators determined Mortenson was "double-dipping" when he didn't reimburse the institute for travel expenses he got from sponsors.
This is what actually happened after Mortenson abandoned his attempt on K2.
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Its interim director, Anne Beyersdorfer, a "longtime family friend of Mortenson, " will eventually give way to a new chief executive, Bullock told reporters Thursday.
Mortenson has selected areas where it was not harder for local and foreign media and researchers to attest such splendid education projects that Mortenson had started.
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This comes after the attorney general concluded that Mortenson "failed to fulfill some of his responsibilities" as executive director, and gave a similar assessment of the institute's board.
But Attorney General Steve Bullock said his office's investigation did find "serious internal problems in the management" of the Bozeman, Montana-based Central Asia Institute that Mortenson helped create.
Last spring, however, the charity and Mortenson found themselves on the defensive against accusations of mismanagement and exaggeration, if not outright fabrication, of key sections from the book.
He also claims that Mortenson, a former mountaineer, has mismanaged and misappropriated hundreds of thousands, if not millions, in donations to his Central Asia Institute which builds the schools.
Mortenson resigned as his charity's executive director last November.
She spoke highly of the work the charity has continued to do, as well as the role that Mortenson has had -- and may continue to have on its operations going forward.
Indeed, Mortenson deserves credit for his efforts.
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While he can remain an employee of the Central Asia Institute, Mortenson can "no longer oversee financial aspects of the charity or serve as a voting member of the board of directors, " according to the attorney general's office.
Mortenson claims that he has educated over 60, 000 of young children and mostly girls and built over 170 schools in Karakoram -the north west of Pakistan and the Wakhan valley of Afghanistan near the Russia and China border during the last 17 years.
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At least that is the story that Jon Krakauer is telling about Greg Mortenson, whose books about building schools in the remote bits of Pakistan and Afghanistan (Three Cups of Tea, Stones into Schools) have squatted atop, or near atop, the bestseller lists for nearly five years.
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