Question: What year did the author of Eiger Dreams attempt to climb Mount Everest?

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Susan Ershler: Susan Ershler (born in March 1957) is a public speaker, business executive, climber of Mount Everest, and author.  Ershler and her husband, Phil, are the first couple to have climbed together the highest mountain on each continent, known as the "Seven Summits".  Completion of the Seven Summits endeavor came on May 16, 2002 when Ershler and her husband reached the summit of Mount Everest.  Ershler is the 4th American Woman to climb the Seven Summits and the 12th American Woman to climb Mount Everest.

Arunima Sinha: Arunima Sinha (was born in 1988) is the first Indian amputee to climb Mount Everest.  She is also the first female amputee to climb Mount Everest.

Earth Day 20 International Peace Climb: The Earth Day 20 International Peace Climb was an expedition to reach the summit of Mount Everest during Earth Week 1990 led by Jim Whittaker, the first American to climb Mount Everest (in 1963), and marked the first time in history that mountaineers from the United States, Soviet Union and China had roped together to climb a mountain, let alone Mount Everest.

Samina Baig: Samina Khayal Baig (Urdu: ‎ ; born 19 September 1990) is a Pakistani high-altitude mountaineer who in 2013 climbed Mount Everest and then all Seven Summits by 2014.  She is the first and only Pakistani woman to climb Everest and the Seven Summits.  She is also the youngest Muslim woman to climb Mount Everest, having done so at the age of 21.

Kharta: Kharta is a region in Tibet lying to the east of Mount Everest and centred on the Kharta valley and Kama valley.  The 40 km Kharta valley starts at the col at Lhakpa La at the head of the Kharta Glacier from which the Kharta Chu river flows east to join the Phung Chu just beyond Khata village.  Nearby to the south, the Kama valley starts at the Kangshung Glacier at the foot of Everest's Kangshung Face, and the Kama Chu flows southeast to the Phung Chu.  The 1921 British Mount Everest reconnaissance expedition discovered Kharta when reconnoitring ways to climb Mount Everest and managed to reach the North Col via the Lhakpa La.  Since that time Kharta has not been used as a way to approach the summit of Everest but the two valleys have become a popular area for trekking.

Eiger Dreams: Eiger Dreams: Ventures Among Men and Mountains is a non-fiction collection of articles and essays by Jon Krakauer on mountaineering and rock climbing.  Eleven out of twelve of the chapters were initially published between 1982 and 1989 in the magazines "Outside", "Smithsonian", and "New Age Journal".

Jon Krakauer: Jon Krakauer (born April 12, 1954) is an American writer and mountaineer, primarily known for his writings about the outdoors, especially mountain-climbing.  He is the author of best-selling non-fiction books—"Into the Wild", "Into Thin Air", "Under the Banner of Heaven", and ""—as well as numerous magazine articles.  He was a member of an ill-fated expedition to summit Mount Everest in 1996, one of the deadliest disasters in the history of climbing Everest.

Maurice Wilson: Maurice Wilson MC (21 April 1898 – c. 31 May, 1934) was a British soldier, mystic, mountaineer and aviator who is known for his ill-fated attempt to climb Mount Everest alone in 1934.  Often characterised as "eccentric", he wished to climb Everest as a platform to promote his belief that the world's ills could be solved by a combination of fasting and faith in God.  Despite his lack of mountaineering or flying experience, he succeeded in flying from Britain to India, surreptitiously entering Tibet and climbing as high as 6920 m on Mount Everest.  However, he died in his attempt, and his body was found the following year by a British expedition.

Nawang Sherpa: Nawang Sherpa became the first person to climb Mount Everest with a prosthetic leg by reaching the summit on May 16, 2004 (see Mount Everest Timeline and Trivia).  He is also the first amputee to reach the summit of Mount Everest on his first attempt, and the first disabled person from Asia to stand on the summit.

The Climb (2007 film): The Climb is a 2007 documentary of Laurie Skreslet's return to Mount Everest after twenty-five years.  On October 5, 1982, Laurie Skreslet and Pat Morrow were the first Canadians to climb Mount Everest at the cost of four dead team members.

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Answer: 1996