Surfing in Norway. Why not? The water is a brisk 39 degrees Fahrenheit, the air 5 degrees, cooled by a biting wind-chill factor. It’s not ideal surfing conditions, except in Lofoten, a group of ...

Mark Healey lives to discover new things. Hence an unusual pick at the top of his surfing bucket list: Norway. Only in the last few years have photographs of people surfing massive waves leaked out of ...

All eyes are on a powerful swell slamming Indonesia at the moment. But on the other, colder side of the world a northerly storm sent a rare-looking, short-sharp hit of summery surf into Norway on ...

IT’S SNOWING AS we pull our van onto a muddy turnoff on a two-lane coastal highway. With a gloved hand, Pat Millin wipes fog from the passenger-side window and studies the rugged shoreline of the ...

In Norway you can surf in both the winter and the summer - in spite of record snowfall in recent days. In Norway you can surf in both the winter and the summer - in spite of record snowfall in recent ...

This story appears in the February 2021 issue of National Geographic magazine. The Lofoten Islands are among the world’s most scenic and formidable destinations for winter surfing. Massive Arctic ...

Video by Helio Antonio and Max Emanuelson, edited by Tom Vaughan. What started as a sleeping Western Atlantic last week quickly developed into 50 foot seas, slamming into the coast of Norway. And ...