It’s a sad story with a happy ending for three Australian surfers who finally surfed the wave they were searching for twenty years ago.
In October 1988, Tony Stubley, Mike Vanderfield, Scott Parker, Matt Lumsdaine and Scott Coppin flew to Lima from the United States, Mexico and Australia. Before going to ride the fabled wave, they set off for the Inca ruins of Machu Picchu and Lake Titicaca. . . . They never made it to Chicama. Their plane crashed high in the Andes on October 25, killing at least 17 people and seriously injuring scores of others, including most of the young Australians.
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[Link: Sydney Morning Herald]
