In 1970s America, the legends of free climbing began as young outcasts who wanted no part of a respectable American dream, building a world where the ultimate self-expression was a climb to nowhere. With 16mm archival footage of their daring antics and vagabond lives, plus campfire interviews with John Bachar, Henry Barber, Ron Kauk, Lynn Hill, and more, Wild New Brave shows how they made a utopia out of risk and innocence. Why This Film Matters: Before climbing went mainstream and Olympic, it was a counterculture, and this film preserves that origin story. Wild New Brave captures the freedom, poverty, and purity that shaped the sport's soul, told by the people who lived it.