Paul Piana and Todd Skinner Partner Up and Push The Boundaries (Part 1)
Todd Skinner and Paul Piana team up for the Salathe.
By the middle of the 1980s, the shift to sport climbing was in full swing. Two Wyoming cowboys, Paul Piana and Todd Skinner, recognized that the strength they’d gained from sport climbing would give them an advantage on projects left behind by the previous generation. However, that previous generation wasn’t so quick to embrace the changes. Particularly in Yosemite Valley, resistance was massive – they wanted their walls preserved in a time that was, by then, past.
It would take a maverick to push through the noise, but that maverick would need a calming voice beside them.
