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‘Everyday’ Dale Webster, who surfed 14,626 consecutive days, has died

The Daily Wavester — He passed aged 77, having rode at least three waves a day between 1975 and 2015.

  • Sport
  • Isaac Muk
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In The Road to Patagonia, Matty Hannon holds “a mirror to the human condition”

From tip to tip — More than a surf and travel documentary, the Australian filmmaker meditates on capitalism’s pitfalls and the importance of existing within nature while embarking on a marathon journey from Alaska to Tierra del Fuego.

  • Sport
  • Sam Haddad
Smiling person in black wetsuit riding surfboard on calm ocean with rocky hills in background.

Maryam El Gardoum is breaking new shores for Morocco’s indigenous surfers

The Amazigh Atlantic — Through her groundbreaking career and popular surf school, the five-time Moroccan champion is helping women find their places in the waves.

  • Sport
  • Sam Haddad
Three individuals in swimming attire holding surfboards, standing in a field with cacti in the background.

A new documentary spotlights Ecuador’s women surfers fighting climate change

Ceibo — Co-directed by Maddie Meddings and Lucy Small, the film focuses on the work and story of Pacha Light, a wave rider who lived off-grid before reconnecting with her country’s activist heritage.

  • Sport
  • Hannah Bentley
Surfers against sewage protest box floating in water with people swimming around it.
© Alex Brown / Surfers Against Sewage

The rebellious roots of Cornwall’s surfing scene

100 years of waveriding — Despite past attempts to ban the sport from beaches, surfers have remained as integral, conservationist presences in England’s southwestern tip. A new exhibition in Falmouth traces its long history in the area.

  • Sport
  • Ella Glossop
Two surfers riding waves in the ocean, with spray and ocean in the background.
© Maria Riley

In Queens, local surfers are moulding a neighbourhood in their own renegade images

Rockaway breaks — On a little-known stretch of beach in eastern New York City, an ecosystem of wave catchers, and the local bars and restaurants that fuel them, is seeing a boom. Paolo Bicchieri meets the residents and business owners behind the growing swell.

  • Sport
  • Paolo Bicchieri

The Chinese youth movement ditching big cities for the coast

In ’Fissure of a Sweetdream’ photographer Jialin Yan documents the growing number of Chinese young people turning their backs on careerist grind in favour of a slower pace of life on Hainan Island.

  • Photography
  • Isaac Muk

Laura Crane is waving goodbye to sexism in surfing

The first UK woman to surf the legendary big wave spot Nazarè, Crane is surfing the sea change in the sport and beyond.

  • Sport
  • Sam Haddad

Eddie Vedder on Kelly Slater

Read an excerpt from the Pearl Jam legend’s introduction to a new book on the surfing icon, documented by photographer Todd Glaser.

  • Outdoors
  • Eddie Vedder

The untold story of surfing’s ancient African roots

Watch a Huck-exclusive preview of Wade in the Water, which reclaims the 1,000-year-old Black surfing tradition and hopes to inspire a new generation of Black surfers.

  • Outsiders Project
  • Sam Haddad

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