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 Challenge ...

The TUDOR Nazaré Big Wave Challenge is a premier surfing event on the Big Wave surfing calendar. The event draws elite surfers from across the globe to the treacherous waves of Praia do Norte in ...

If Taghazout has some of the best pointbreaks on the other side of the world, Portugal has some of the best beachbreaks ever ...

Poised on a surfboard and dwarfed by a tower of water some 10 times her size, fear is one of the first emotions that big wave surfer Laura Crane feels before she hurtles down a 60-foot behemoth. “From ...

The Nazare Big Wave Challenge has been given the green light to run this Monday, January 22. With a solid North Atlantic swell on the way and a cadre of the world’s top big-wave surfers in hot pursuit ...

Few people have the surf skills, or the guts, needed to paddle out into the world’s biggest, heaviest waves. But for people who have always dreamed of getting up close to the bombing barrels in Tahiti ...

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 than ...

For Big Wave rider Garrett McNamara and his wife and manager, Nicole, the HBO adventure series, 100 Foot Wave, began as a way to introduce big wave surfing to the world. What followed was just that ...