Surfer Alo Slebir, 24, rode a gargantuan wave estimated to be 108 feet high - the height of a 10 storey building. Story, plus video.
It happened just before Christmas in the waters of the hallowed Northern California big wave surf break known as Mavericks. Alo had watched the data captured by buoys hundreds of miles out in the Pacific Ocean that could predict wave heights days before they slammed into the West Coast - and was ready and waiting when they eventually, as predicted, arrived.
Legendary surfer Jeff Clark - who has spent 50 years tackling the waves at Mavericks and was once named one of the world’s best big-wave riders by Surfer magazine - was out on the water that day and was gobsmacked by what he witnessed.
Alo was pulled up behind the “giant wall of water” by his buddy on a jetski. He caught the monster wave and found himself rocketing down its nearly vertical face, traveling faster than he ever had in his life.
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