Daredevil surfers took on 35ft waves on Monday as they competed in the world-famous Nazaré Big Wave Challenge in Portugal. Shocking video showed brave athletes riding out towering waves in the ...

In November 2011, McNamara claimed a Guinness World Record for the largest wave surfed after a ride in Nazaré. It was ...

Hailing from the archipelago known as the Inner Hebrides, Ben Larg took the fast track to a surfing life. By 12 years old, he ...

Garrett is considered the pioneer of Nazaré's big wave surfing spot Credit: Getty. When American surfer Garrett McNamara received a photo in 2007 of a monster wave off of Portugal’s coast, he ...

Categories include Men’s and Women’s Ride of the Year, Biggest Wave, Wipeout of the Year and Surfer of the Year – all to be awarded October 19, 2024, in Nazaré, Portugal The SURFER Big Wave ...

NEW YORK, October 14, 2024--The SURFER Big Wave Challenge – a yearlong, international surfing competition to ride and document the world’s biggest waves – is nearly complete. The winners ...

Few waves inspire more awe and fear than Nazaré on a big day. This wave in Portugal can reach more than 100 feet in the winter season, which means surfers are riding at around 50 miles per hour ...

In 2015, William Finnegan’s Barbarian Days: A Surfling Life introduced a large segment of the surfing world to the beauty of Madeira, an archipelago of small Portuguese islands closer to Africa ...

Big Ugly: Surfing (and Surviving) Nazaré See dramatic footage of a daring rescue attempt of a fallen big wave surfer in Nazaré, Portugal.

Case in point, when the wave does break, it can get damn good and is a way more paddle-friendly option than Portugal’s more ...

Big-wave surfer, Joao Macedo, president and founder of the Hope Zones Foundation, in Nazaré, Portugal. João Macedo is a big-wave surfer. A renowned one, too, with multiple World Surf League ...

Fellow big wave surfer Nic von Rupp posted to Instagram, “Today we lost one of ours. Always had loads of respect for Marcio as one of the paddle pioneers at Jaws. Today I saw him surf all day at ...