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 ...

"It was something that I had never seen before out there," Alo Slebir, a veteran of large swells, tells PEOPLE Alo Slebir/Instagram; bigwavechallenge/Youtube Alo Slebir during a recent surf trip to ...

Cody Purcell is more like you and me than his fellow finalists in the Thriller at Killers, a big-wave invitational held at Todos Santos last weekend. He just wants to spend as much time in the water ...

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Ben Gravy and Jacob ‘Zeke’ Szekely charge a head-high ferry wake in New Jersey, claiming an historic milestone, as the ...