‘Who’s Here: Dr. Blake Kerr’ - Dan’s Papers

January 21, 2012

By Nanci E. LaGarenne

“What makes a person raised in a traditional family, headed down one path, veer from that road, and have such empathy for a people in a far away land, spending the better part of his life, trying to right a very terrible wrong?

For Dr. Blake Kerr, local physician, his eyes were opened to the atrocities that have befallen the people of Tibet, a genocide no one could witness and be the same after, ever again. It all started when as a student at Dartmouth, his friend and fellow student, John Ackerly, suggested rock climbing in Peru, for college credit. Why not?…”