A 2020 satellite photo shows the immense power of 7-story waves crashing along the Portuguese coast. Later the same day, a ...

Some of the biggest waves ever surfed break off the now-iconic coastline of Nazaré, which is Portugal's charming little town, packed with terracotta rooftops and dramatic cliffs. Gigantic, 80-foot ...

Along Portugal’s Atlantic rim, Nazaré has become shorthand for oceanic extremes, where 7‑story waves rise like moving ...

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jim Clash writes about extreme adventure and classic rock. About an hour and a half north of Lisbon, Portugal, by bus, lies the ...

Nazaré has been bustling. I’m not just talking about the thousands of spectators who lined the cliffside above Praia do Norte last weekend. After Garrett McNamara put Nazaré on the big-wave map in ...

Matt Formston is feeling pretty good today. The Australian is currently in Pismo Beach, CA, surfing in the ISA World Para Surfing Championship. His sessions have been fun, his boards are feeling good, ...

How does a big-wave person prepare to take on the tallest wave in the world? There aren’t many similar situations in the regular surf universe that can train one to be comfortable during a life or ...

There is a popular, Emmy Award-winning HBO documentary television series, “100 Foot Wave,” just beginning its third season of production. It’s about the personal lives of big wave surfers and their ...