Piassa is a microphone for anyone who gives a damn about the borderlands we call home.

hot damn!

View from Separate Reality climb in Yosemite National Park — a sunlit lower Merced Canyon winding through, lush forest and misty waterfalls in the distance.

Piassa's mission is to spark thought and bring people together around the borderlands we adventure in. We believe in the real need for humans to rub shoulders — not just on a screen, but at cross-border cleanups, on trails that span two nations, and in the shared spaces where environmental community takes root.

founder | president

brian havenner

creative associate

brian is a photographer, writer, and creative associate who documents the friction between human borders and environmental realities. through photography and raw storytelling, he explores what it means to climb and recreate responsibly in a region where every trail has consequences and every send carries history. his work focuses on cross-border conservation and the shared environmental responsibilities of the u.s.-Mexico borderlands

vishal bobba

contributor

vishal is a multidisciplinary creative—writing prose, shooting in film and developing his own negatives in his home studio. he also is a rock climbing guide, and one of the few humans on the planet to climb el cap not once, but twice