When he was 14 he become the youngest person to surf the 9m (30ft) waves that crash into the coast at Mallaghmore in south west Ireland. Ben later went on to ride another monster of between 18m ...

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.

They also created some of the biggest and best surf to ever fire across one of the world’s most renowned big wave spots, Maverick’s near Half Moon Bay. Surfers that dared to try and tame this ...

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 ...

Known as big-wave surfing, it sees experienced surfers towed into huge swells as high as 60ft (18m) or, as Al describes them, "as big as houses". Charles McQuillan The north coast is a hugely ...

"It’s been 20 years of surfing big waves and I’m finally ready to step away from professional surfing and big-wave surfing and find something else," said the 37-year-old big-wave pioneer. "It ...

With the competition window now open for the 2025 TUDOR Nazaré Big Wave Challenge, discover what makes this form of surfing so compelling and find out where the world's biggest waves can be found.

Praia do Norte is home to some of the biggest surfable waves on the planet. Paralympian and three times para-surf-world champion, and big-wave surfer, Matt Formston, conquered his biggest challenge.