[2] The Adventure Consultants' Everest expedition of 1996 consisted of three guides (Rob Hall, Mike Groom, and Andy Harris) and eight clients (Frank Fischbeck, Doug Hansen, Stuart Hutchison, Lou Kasischke, Jon Krakauer, Yasuko Namba, John Taske, and Beck Weathers).
Despite being advised to remain at Lobuje one more night, Harris proceeded to Base Camp with the rest of the party on 8 April 1996.
"[9] In the early hours of May 10 one client and a Sherpa aborted their climb,[9] and by noon five out of eight team members had ended their summit bids.
Krakauer, meanwhile, took the longer route around back to the tents but reported to others at camp that Harris had safely returned.
Regarding his failure to recognize that Andy Harris was weakened and acting irrationally from altitude and lack of oxygen, Krakauer wrote that his own "actions – or failure to act – played a direct role in the death of Andy Harris.
[14] It is likely that Harris went to aid Rob Hall and Doug Hansen when they were trapped higher up on the mountain as the storm came in.
[16] It has been theorized that an oxygen cache stored by Adventure Consultants on the South Summit was pilfered by another expedition and subsequently discovered and reported by Harris.
[17] A few minutes from Gorakshep towards the Everest Base Camp, a memorial was built for the members of the Adventure Consultants' team that died during the expedition: Andy Harris, Rob Hall, Doug Hansen and Yasuko Namba.