A Brazilian surfed a 68-foot wave and placed her name in the record books.
In January, Maya Gabeira conquered the large wave during a surfing event in Nazaré, Portugal. It happened at the same location where she suffered a serious injury in 2013.
Months after the surfing event, Guinness World Records announced the 68-foot wave Gabeira surfed was the largest on record for a woman … Video and More
The largest and meanest waves in the world slam into a headland in Portugal called Nazaré. Such is this monster break it often breaks those brave – or crazy – boardriders who attempt to take it on.
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Born in the Mountains, raised by the Waves – Mathieu Crepel
Between oceans and mountains, here is the unique adventure, the passionate journey of one of the greatest athlete of its generation; snowboarding world champion Mathieu Crepel. Some see it as a quest of the needless, others as a way of life. A reason to discover the world, to accomplish his dreams that sometimes turn out to be true feats… Filmed and told by his childhood friend, Mathieu challenges himself to surf the legendary wave of Jaws in Hawaii, an intimate tale with a feel good movie note.
In the 1970s renegade surfers were greeted with bemusement on the beaches of France’s Atlantic coast; now it’s the cars without surfboards on that stand out at this stop on the World Surf League tour
It was 1979 and we’d hit the road in an old, beat-up Peugeot Estate, heading to the wave-washed coast of southwest France on a surf trip – my first ever.
Eventually we arrived at our destination, Biarritz, the surf capital of Europe at a time when the sport was still a niche activity enjoyed only by a renegade few. From the early 1960s to the early ’80s the area around Biarritz, known as … More