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 ...

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 ...

Does that mean anything to you? It didn’t mean anything to anybody a dozen years ago. But the little town of that name on the Portuguese coast has in the past few years vaulted into prominence as the ...

One of the best sports documentaries in the past few years was 2018’s Momentum Generation, Jeff and Michael Zimbalist’s feature-length look at a group of connected surfers, which aired on HBO that ...

Most of Europe has had a torrid, turgid winter, though Spain and Portugal have been the worst hit. So far this year, there have been six major low-pressure systems that have struck the Iberian ...

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 ...

Few things can compete with the mighty spectacle of Big Wave Surfing, where only the most confident and daring thrill-seekers risk life and death to catch what is basically a sweeping, 10-story liquid ...

Yesterday, media outlets and surfing enthusiasts went crazy when reports came out that Garrett McNamara had surfed a record 100-foot wave near Nazaré, Portugal. The one problem: McNamara never said it ...

The Nazare Tow Surfing Challenge has come and gone, but that didn’t stop surfers from enjoying the big waves at Nazare, Portugal. Several surfers such as Sebastian Steudtner, of Germany; Justine ...

The Nazare Tow Surfing Challenge has come and gone, but that didn’t stop surfers from enjoying the big waves at Nazare, Portugal. Related Articles San Lorenzo River mouth surf spot approved as ...