A 23-year-old Santa Cruz surfer may have broken the world record to become the first person to ride a 100-foot wave.

But a jaw-dropping photo of Slebir’s relatively tiny form racing down a collapsing mountain of ice-cold Pacific Ocean water has gone viral, with knowledgeable big-wave surfers around the globe ...

Basque Country hydrofoil hellman, Matt Etxebarne Aguirregomezkorta, goes big during a historic California swell.

“You can measure Mt. Everest every day of the week for 100 years, it never moves,” Bill Sharp, who has spent decades orchestrating the world’s most rigorous big wave surfing awards, told the ...

On December 22, 2024, while the surf world’s collective eye was fixed on Waimea Bay during the 2024 Eddie Aikau Big-Wave Invitational, lensman Fred Pompermayer was in the channel at Jaws ...

Photograph of Alessandro Slebir surfing on the potentially world record breaking wave taken by the Big Wave Challenge group. Photograph of Alessandro Slebir surfing on the potentially world record ...

Big wave surfers caught bombs on December 23 while professional photographers documented the Pacific Ocean’s raw power. Alessandro “Alo” Slebir, one of the hottest up-and-coming surfers from ...

Slebir told SFGATE Monday that he’s not dwelling on the wave’s exact height. “Regardless of the number, it really doesn’t matter how big the wave was to me,” Slebir said. “It was ...

Hawaii’s Landon McNamara made waves—literally and figuratively—after capturing the prestigious Eddie Aikau Big Wave Invitational on Sunday at Waimea Bay. The North Shore surfer joined Kelly ...