Big Mama: La madre di tutte le onde

Nazaré, a 35-meter wave and the story of the man who first rode it

Big Mama, a now legendary wave, crossed the Atlantic to die on the beach of Nazaré, a town about a hundred kilometers north of Lisbon, Portugal, that has become the capital of tow-in surfing in recent years, the most extreme discipline in surfing, practiced by a small club of athletes who challenge the giants of the sea. Before exploding, that impressive mountain of water, over 30 meters high, met a man who had been waiting f...