What year was the author of The Steep Ascent born?
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The Steep Ascent The Steep Ascent is a 1944 novella by the American writer Anne Morrow Lindbergh. It follows a pregnant woman and her pilot husband as they fly from England over France and the Alps to Italy.
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Anne Morrow Lindbergh Anne Spencer Lindbergh (née Morrow; June 22, 1906 – February 7, 2001) was an American author, aviator, and the wife of aviator Charles Lindbergh.
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Louis Lachenal Louis Lachenal (17 July 1921 – 25 November 1955), a French climber born in Annecy, Haute-Savoie, was one of the first two mountaineers to climb a summit of more than 8,000 meters. On 3 June 1950, along with Maurice Herzog, he reached the summit of Annapurna I in Nepal at a height of 8,091 m (26,545 ft). Previously he had made the second ascent of the North Face of the Eiger in 1947, with Lionel Terray. He died falling into a snow-covered crevasse while skiing the Vallee Blanche in Chamonix. The mountain Pointe Lachenal in the Mont Blanc massif was named after him.
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John Tickell Dr. John Tickell (born 29 January 1945) is an Australian doctor, businessman, author, former athlete and speaker.
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Chris Haver Christopher “Chris” Sterling Haver is an American entrepreneur, international businessman, and adventure traveler with a background in commercial real estate, technology, finance, and Internet startups. He was the first American to climb and ski the Seven Summits, beginning in 1989 and ending in 1996.
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Bernadette McDonald Bernadette McDonald (born 1951) is a Canadian-born author of several non-fiction books, primarily on mountain culture topics, including "Brotherhood of the Rope", "Tomaž Humar" and "Freedom Climbers".
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Candia McWilliam Candia Frances Juliet McWilliam (born 1 July 1955) is a Scottish author. Her father was the architectural writer and academic Colin McWilliam.
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Bill Bryson William McGuire "Bill" Bryson {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} ( ; born December 8, 1951) is a best-selling Anglo-American author of books on travel, the English language, science, and other non-fiction topics. Born in the United States, he has been a resident of Britain for most of his adult life, returning to the United States between 1995 and 2003. He served as the chancellor of Durham University from 2005 to 2011.
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David Von Drehle David James Von Drehle (born February 6, 1961) is an American author and journalist.
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Alison Levine Alison Levine (born April 5, 1966) is an American mountain climber, sportswoman, explorer and leadership consultant. She is the author of "On the Edge" and the executive producer of a documentary, "The Glass Ceiling". She has ascended the highest peaks on every continent and also skied to both the North and South Poles. In 2010, she completed the Adventure Grand Slam by reaching the summit of Mt. Everest. She serves as an adjunct instructor at the U.S. Military Academy.
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No Picnic on Mount Kenya No Picnic on Mount Kenya (Italian: "Fuga sul Kenya" ) by Felice Benuzzi is a mountaineering classic recounting the 1943 attempt of three escaped Italian prisoners of war to reach the summit of Mount Kenya. It was first published in 1947 in Italian and in 1952 in English. The 1994 film "The Ascent" is based on this book.
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Tori James Tori James (born 1981) was the first Welsh woman to climb Mount Everest, at the age of 25, making her the youngest British woman ever to complete the ascent.
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Sandy Hill (mountaineer) Sandra Hill (born April 12, 1955, formerly Sandra Hill Pittman) is a socialite, mountaineer, author, and former fashion editor. She survived the 1996 Mount Everest disaster shortly after becoming the 34th woman to reach the Mt. Everest summit and the second American woman to ascend all of the Seven Summits.
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John Bragg (climber) John Bragg is an American rock climber and alpinist, noted for first ascents of difficult rock climbs in the Shawangunks and Colorado, and taking high grade rock skills to Patagonia, to make the first ascent of Torre Egger in 1976 with Jim Donini and Jay Wilson.
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William Rivers Pitt William Rivers Pitt (born November 9, 1971) is an author, editor, and political activist.
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A. W. Andrews Arthur Westlake Andrews (12 December 1868 – 22 November 1959) was a British geographer, poet, rock-climber, mountaineer and amateur tennis and badminton player.
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David George Campbell David George Campbell (born January 28, 1949 in Decatur, Illinois, United States) is an American educator, ecologist, environmentalist, and award-winning author of non-fiction.
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Harold Drasdo Harold Drasdo (21 February 1930 – 3 September 2015) was an English rock climber, writer and educationalist.
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George Mallory George Herbert Leigh Mallory (18 June 1886 – 8 or 9 June 1924) was an English mountaineer who took part in the first three British expeditions to Mount Everest, in the early 1920s.
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Cesare Maestri Cesare Maestri (born 2 October 1929) is an Italian mountaineer and writer.
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Ranulph Fiennes Sir Ranulph Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes, 3rd Baronet, OBE (born 7 March 1944), commonly known as Ranulph "Ran" Fiennes ( ), is a British explorer and holder of several endurance records. He is also a prolific writer and poet.
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James Riddell (skier) W. James Riddell MBE (27 December 1909 – 2 February 2000) was a British champion skier and author who was involved in the early days of skiing as a competitive sport and holiday industry. Like his near contemporary, Sir Arnold Lunn, he matched his adventurism on the slopes and knowledge of the Alpine countries with an elegant record of his times.