When winter in Portugal rolls around, all eyes turn to Nazaré. Portugual has many waves, but Nazaré has a certain something that all those other waves don't.

In the winter of 2016-17 the World Surf League held its first ever big wave event in Portugal, the Nazare Big Wave Challenge.After a day of carnage the event – a strictly paddle surfing affair ...

Over the past decade and change, the realm of big wave surfing has seen a gravitational shift towards Europe and, particularly, Nazaré, Portugal. It’s now ground zero for the world’s largest ...

It’s been a somewhat quiet season, thus far, in the Atlantic big wave surfing sector ... But Nazaré, Portugal’s premier heavy-water gauntlet, has been slightly MIA – aside from a season ...

The 115-foot-wave is just a surfer's dream at the moment, but new wave measuring technology may see surfers attaining that goal in reality.

An curved arrow pointing right. Nazaré, Portugal, can get waves as high as 100 feet, and is only for the world's bravest surfers. However, Jason Polakow just became the first person to windsurf ...

Garrett McNamara is widely recognized for putting Nazaré on the map as a world-class big wave. Since first venturing to Portugal in the mid-2000s, the Hawaiian has dedicated his life to surfing ...

He did it in Nazaré, Portugal, where a submarine ... and no one [of the local people] wanted to surf. This was the same. Why did you chose big wave surfing? When I started surfing, I had to ...

He recently attempted the most fearsome and dangerous challenge for a surfer: big wave surfing. It was time for Portugal ... Brazilian Lucas Chumbo, was in Nazare at the time, and towed ...

It became the Olympus of surfing in the 2010s. Monster waves roll ashore here between late autumn and spring. They are the largest in the world, so Nazaré is a hotspot for big wave surfers such ...

Ben Larg, from Tiree, was first taken out on a surf board ... for the latest big wave surf season at Nazaré Ben Larg has carved out a career surfing monster waves Nazaré in Portugal is where ...

The surf world right now, especially amongst those of the big wave persuasion ... chaotic seas upon Nazaré, Portugal and, according to his team, it was the biggest wave of the Portuguese surfer ...