Given that it’s barely 6am, the sun hasn’t yet risen, and we’re the only two souls on this volcanic black beach on the northern coast of Madeira, it’s impressive that my travel companion, British ...

In 2015, William Finnegan’s Barbarian Days: A Surfling Life introduced a large segment of the surfing world to the beauty of Madeira, an archipelago of small Portuguese islands closer to Africa than ...

Yosemite’s iconic Half Dome is to rock climbers what Rincon Point is to surfers — a place of unbridled beauty and internationally celebrated perfection. However, while Yosemite sits on a vast expanse ...