Here's What It's Like to Fall on a Huge Day at World's Most Terrifying Wave

Ian Walsh is about as prepared and capable as a big-wave surfer can be. Mavericks, the premier cold water big wave on the planet, on the central California coast, does not remotely care. This is a chilling, thrilling re-telling of Walsh’s worst, and potentially fatal, beat-down at the place.

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