"It was something that I had never seen before out there," Alo Slebir, a veteran of large swells, tells PEOPLE Alo Slebir/Instagram; bigwavechallenge/Youtube Alo Slebir during a recent surf trip to ...

Blair Conklin takes on a massive 30-foot king tide at Alaska’s Turnagain Arm tidal bore.

Germany’s only wave pool stepped in to fill the surfing void after Munich’s premier river wave shut down. When the famed Eisbach disappeared in early November because of a city-run dredging project, ...

Alo Slebir during a recent surf trip to Ireland (left) and while riding a potentially historic wave in December off the coast of California. Alo Slebir had just arrived on Maui’s north shore late last ...