CNN has a story on Garett McNamara and his general all around radness including surfing that glacier fall wave back in 2007.
As the block of ice plummeted into the Copper River, it created a two-meter-high wave which McNamara surfed — the first and probably only person ever to ride such a swell. . . “It was the closest I’ve ever come to death,” said the man who has surfed nine-story waves on the most rugged coastlines in the world.
So yeah, we never want to do that ever.
[Link: CNN]
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