Every once in a while we come across a story of people trying to push the limits of what human beings can do. Athletes competing not just against each other, but against mother nature herself. When we ...

Surfing's best surfers flocked to the invire-only 2025 TUDOR Nazaré Big Wave Challenge in Portugal, which runs from November ...

French big wave surfer Justine Dupont has established herself as a global icon, renowned for riding massive waves at Nazare.

With a name like Nazaré, an ode to the holy city of Nazareth, the waves that pound the small Portuguese fishing village every winter are, aptly, quite biblical. Nazaré – just north of Portugal’s ...

In February of 2022, a supercharged extratropical cyclone, dubbed “Eunice,” spiraled across the Atlantic and sent extra-large waves to Nazaré, Portugal. During that swell, Vinicius “Vini” Dos Santos ...

It’s been a somewhat quiet season, thus far, in the Atlantic big wave surfing sector. Elsewhere in the Pacific, there's been less crickets – capping off 2024, the Eddie Aikau Big Wave Invitational ran ...

Two huge and perfect swells ushered in the beginning of big-wave season at Nazaré and the surfers put on an epic show that we won't be forgetting in a hurry – check out the video footage right here.

An 18-year-old from Scotland has become the youngest British woman to surf huge waves that break off Nazaré in Portugal. Robyn Larg, from the Isle of Tiree, Argyll, surfed a wave of about 4.5m (15ft) ...

“At some point, after the high tide, Nazare felt like surfing Pipeline.” says Vini Dos Santos after surfing three back-to-back days of pumping, barrelling Praia do Norte. “I haven’t seen it like this, ...

Carlos Burle has spent decades around big waves, but the wipeout he took on Wednesday in Nazaré was different. A few hours after being released from the hospital — still tired, waiting for his flight ...

One of the largest North Atlantic XXL swells ever witnessed during the month of October came to Nazare, Portugal, thanks in part to last week’s Hurricane Epsilon. The massive swell built in on ...