Brave New Wild

BRAVE NEW WILD is an offbeat chronicle of Americas Golden Age of rock climbing before and after the controversial ascent of the Dawn Wall in 1970 Some forty years later Oakley AndersonMoore the daughter of a pioneering climber stumbles upon her fathers old hi8 tapes and sets out to answer the question why climb when theres nothing to gain and everything to lose Wry humor and an eclectic original soundtrack punctuate the delinquent antics of the Vulgarians in the Gunks the largerthanlife rivalry of Yosemites rock gods and the fruit tramping freight train hopping hobodom of her dads climbing life This film is quintessential viewing for those who long for adventure