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Sasha DiGiulian on The Eighth Day (5.13a) at the Project Wall. The first ascent of the line was infamously snatched from Mark Tarrant by Pete Zoller. “I was naive, thinking no one would ever go to Rifle to climb,” Tarrant told Climbing ruefully in 2011. “I saw no rush to get things done in an obscure place with so-so stone. By ‘89, I saw that I had been wrong, and the rest is history.”