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A young, very likeable guide who works for Rob Hall, and quickly becomes a good friend to Jon Krakauer. Harris has never been to Mount Everest before he embarks on the expedition with Krakauer; however, he proves himself to be an excellent guide, and takes good care of his clients. Harris’s life comes to a tragic end when, on the afternoon of May 10, he begins to run dangerously low on supplemental oxygen. Delirious, Harris blunders off in the wrong direction, eventually freezing to death. It’s not entirely clear who the last person to see Harris alive was, since Krakauer cannot decide whether he ran into Harris, or another mountaineer.
Andy Harris Quotes in Into Thin Air
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Chapter 16
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Was I really so debilitated that I had stared into the face of a near stranger and mistaken him for a friend with whom I'd spent the previous six weeks? And if Andy had never arrived at Camp Four after reaching the summit, what in the name of God had happened to him?
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Chapter 17
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Two full bottles were waiting for them at the South Summit; if Hall had known this he could have retrieved the gas fairly quickly and then climbed back up to give Hansen a fresh tank, But Andy Harris, still at the oxygen cache, in the throes of his hypoxic dementia, overheard these radio calls and broke in to tell Hall—incorrectly, just as he'd told Mike Groom and me—that all the bottles at the South Summit were empty,
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Andy Harris Quotes in Into Thin Air
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Chapter 16
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Was I really so debilitated that I had stared into the face of a near stranger and mistaken him for a friend with whom I'd spent the previous six weeks? And if Andy had never arrived at Camp Four after reaching the summit, what in the name of God had happened to him?
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Chapter 17
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Two full bottles were waiting for them at the South Summit; if Hall had known this he could have retrieved the gas fairly quickly and then climbed back up to give Hansen a fresh tank, But Andy Harris, still at the oxygen cache, in the throes of his hypoxic dementia, overheard these radio calls and broke in to tell Hall—incorrectly, just as he'd told Mike Groom and me—that all the bottles at the South Summit were empty,
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