RIP Todd Skinner
Posted on December 5, 2006
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It happened more than a month ago but I just found out yesterday (not much exposure to the climbing scene these last eight months, thanks to this persistent RSI): Todd Skinner was killed while rappelling the Leaning Tower in Yosemite:
Skinner, a 47-year-old former rodeo cowboy and world-renowned rock climber, fell more than 500 feet to his death Monday after the nylon loop used to attach the climbing rope to his harness broke. The accident has sent shock waves through the climbing community, where Skinner’s outgoing nature was almost as legendary as his courage and skill on some of the world’s most dangerous rock faces.
The climbing community may have lost one of the original hard men, but never his legacy.
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