Profile: Tara Kerzhner—A Study in Contrast
“Knock-knock,” Tara Kerzhner said to me below The Eighth Day (5.13a), Rifle, Colorado’s endless, vertical, notoriously crimpy roadside testpiece. It was August 2013. Kerzhner, then 29, her husband, Greg, and I had spent most of the summer camping and climbing in the park.Frazzled, I pulled at my ...

