Nazaré is a nightmare. And this week, during the opening days of the swell season, the Portuguese beast lived up to its reputation with international tow teams enduring some serious carnage. (See the ...

“I didn’t grow up by the ocean. I didn’t have rich parents to travel around with me as a kid, I didn’t start surfing until I was an adult, I’m not from Hawaii, Australia, the US – I’m not even from ...

Surfing the world's biggest waves takes a certain kind of commitment. Whether it's paddling undeterred into an over-sized XL bomb, or letting go of the rope on an 80-to-90 foot monster, there's a ...

NAZARÈ, Portugal – Off the coast of Portugal, a quiet fishing village has progressively evolved into the premier venue for big wave surfers looking to catch the wave of a lifetime. For decades, thrill ...

Dec 13 (Reuters) - Brazil's Lucas "Chumbo" Chianca survived two brutal wipeouts to claim another Nazare Big Wave Challenge title in huge, clean waves in Portugal on Saturday, while France's Justine ...

Maverick’s, Jaws, Nazaré…these are some faces on big wave surfing’s Mount Rushmore, the perennial spots, which every year, serve up some of the most unfathomably massive surf. But there’s a quiet ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Laura Crane is still coming down from a high -- the highest wave she's ever surfed. And just maybe, the highest any woman has.

Discover how Nazaré's monster waves are shaped by reflection, not funneling, challenging long-held beliefs about this surfing ...

Over the weekend, one of the biggest swells in recent memory hit surfing’s home of the world’s largest liquid mountains: Nazaré, Portugal. It was so big, so unwieldly, that some even questioned the ...