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In Chapter 16 of Into Thin Air, Krakauer finds out that Andy Harris didn't make it back from the summit. The night before Krakauer pointed Harris in the right direction and saw him clamber into camp. After searching for him for a while, he realizes that Harris fell of a cliff. Krakauer is really, really upset by this. He is unbearably sad, and feels bad for telling people that Andy made it back safe the previous night. He had even talked to Andy's girlfriend on the phone and told her. Krakauer then tells of another story, that I notice he does a lot, as I have previously noted. Krakauer tells of his times after returning from Everest. He tries contacting everyone on the trip on what happened and how certain people met their end. Through one of these interviews Krakauer makes a horrifying discovery. He realizes he made another mistake concerning the disapearence of Harris. He finds out that the person he directed back to camp wasn't Harris, it was Martin Adams. Adams had gotten stuck in a crevasse, and pulled himself out. Krakauer was sitting at the top and pointed him in the right direction, Krakauer thinking it was Harris and Adams not knowing who it was. Krakauer got his conclustion of Harris falling off the cliff by the footprints by the crevasse. He is horrified by his second mistake and wants to find out what really happened to Harris. The chapter really builds up suspense, and is the first really gripping part. It makes me really want to read on and not put the book down, the first time this has happened in the book. Its starting to get good.