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 Los Angeles Times.

Waves reached heights of 50 feet Sunday during the Eddie Aikau Big Wave Invitational in Hawaii that produced epic rides and ...

One of the biggest waves in the world broke at Mavericks near Half Moon Bay during a jaw-dropping swell this December. Big ...

After briefly riding the wave, Simpson-Kane is seen flipping several times before disappearing under it. The professional surfer said his training helped him survive. “Big wave surfers ...

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 ...

the contest’s organizer and an authority on big wave surfing. Sharp told SFGATE that while he thought Quirarte’s 108-foot estimation was “generous,” he added that the wave is “absolutely ...

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 ...

Earning a spot on the prestigious list of big-wave surfers invited to compete at ... The event started 34 years ago to honor the waterman, who died in 1978 when a Polynesian sailing canoe ...

Mr. McNamara, a big wave surfer who was raised in a family of them, became the third consecutive North Shore surfer to win the iconic contest. “I don’t know what to feel right now, I already ...

As the competition drew to a close, McNamara said, he felt he was picked to win by Aikau, a late big-wave surfer and lifeguard who was credited with saving dozens of people from the surf. He died ...