Only experts, like Portugal’s own Nic Von Rupp, tempted fate in search of glory and motored out to have a crack at what Rupp called the “biggest swell in years.” Check out his video recap below. “Some ...

A sleepy Portuguese town has become unmissable for surfers as its home to some of the biggest and most dangerous waves in the ...

Garrett McNamara is widely recognized for putting Nazaré on the map as a world-class big wave. Since first venturing to Portugal in the mid-2000s, the Hawaiian has dedicated his life to surfing ...

That world record currently stands at 86 feet, held by German big wave surfer Sebastian Steudtner after an incredible wave at Portugal’s famed big wave break, Nazaré, in October 2020.

It came in Nazaré, Portugal, which was also the site of ... before the Guinness World Records anointed the current biggest wave ever surfed." Still, Dec. 23 at Mavericks "has been described ...

In November of 2020, a freak wave came out of the blue, lifting a lonesome buoy off the coast of British Columbia 17.6 meters high (58 feet).

In the winter of 2016-17 the World Surf League held its first ever big wave event in Portugal, the Nazare Big Wave Challenge.After a day of carnage the event – a strictly paddle surfing affair ...

The current holder of the surfing “the largest wave (unlimited ... October 2020 at Praia do Norte in Nazaré, Portugal, by riding an 86-foot wave. Of course, the new wave height will ...

But in the mid-2000s, Hawaiian big-wave surfer Garrett McNamara heard that a sunny off-the-beaten-path beach in Portugal, where families go bodyboarding with their kids in summer, turns ferocious ...

It became the Olympus of surfing in the 2010s. Monster waves roll ashore here between late autumn and spring. They are the largest in the world, so Nazaré is a hotspot for big wave surfers such ...

If confirmed, Slebir’s wave would easily beat out the current record-holding 86-foot wave surfed by Germany’s Sebastian Steudtner off the coast of Praia do Norte, Nazaré, Portugal.