The tiny Portuguese beach town of Nazare produces the largest waves in the world. For Garrett McNamara, it is the site of his greatest surfing triumph, in the very place where he finds solace after a ...

In 2013, famed TV journalist Anderson Cooper traveled to Nazaré, Portugal for a segment on 60 Minutes. He met up with big-wave surfer and Nazaré pioneer, Garrett McNamara, for an up-close-and-personal ...

Every once in a while we come across a story of people trying to push the limits of what human beings can do. Athletes competing not just against each other, but against mother nature herself. When we ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Garrett McNamara rides a wave at Praia do Norte in Nazaré in 2014 It’s a sunny Tuesday morning in Hawaii and I’m on a jetski with ...

For Big Wave rider Garrett McNamara and his wife and manager, Nicole, the HBO adventure series, 100 Foot Wave, began as a way to introduce big wave surfing to the world. What followed was just that ...

At the market in the ancient fishing village of Nazaré, Portuguese pensioners shopped for their fruit and vegetables. Retired fishermen chatted over coffee. And a record-breaking American surfer ...

The charming fishing village of Nazaré is home to one of the most iconic big-wave surfbreaks in the world. Although bodyboarders and surfers have been riding it for decades, it wasn’t until a ...

Andy “Cotty” Cotton on the ride of his life at Praia do Norte, Nazare, Portugal, October 2020. Andrew “Cotty” Cotton has pretty much done it all in surfing. But you’d never know it by chatting with ...

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 ...