Outside Magazine online featured a six-page spread on the First Ascent- sponsored Arctic Surf expedition. The article chronicles the month-long journey of the six professional surfers as they braved the 30-to-40 degree Fahrenheit waters off Lofoten Islands, the southern portion of a secluded archipelago in northwestern Norway, in search of untamed waves and undiscovered breaks. [...]
[EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the last in a series of five posts by Yassine Ouhilal chronicling the month-long Arctic Surf Expedition that he and four other surfers began on April 5, 2009.]
May 1. Morning comes with fanfare and a parade. May 1 is a national holiday in Russia, leading up to Victory Day on May [...]
[EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the fourth in a series of five posts by Yassine Ouhilal chronicling the month-long Arctic Surf Expedition that he and four other surfers began on April 5, 2009.]
April 28. We’ve spent the last week surfing up and down the coast. We went back to “Broken Hearts,” and managed to score some [...]
[EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the third in a series of five posts by Yassine Ouhilal chronicling the month-long Arctic Surf Expedition that he and four other surfers began on April 5, 2009.]
April 15. It’s been howling, raining and snowing for three days. The winds from the north are blowing at 25-35 knots. The surf is [...]
[EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the second in a series of five posts by Yassine Ouhilal chronicling the month-long Arctic Surf Expedition that he and four other surfers began on April 5, 2009.]
April 6. We wake at 6:00 a.m. to bright sunshine and the sounds of seagulls. Unpacking our boards, we get ready to take to [...]
[EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the first in a series of five posts by Yassine Ouhilal chronicling the month-long Arctic Surf Expedition that he and four other surfers began on April 5, 2009.]
April 4. After several months of planning and years of scouting polar regions, our journey is about to begin. It will take us all [...]
Five world-class surfers. Thirty-two days. One destination: the Arctic Circle. How far would you go to find a wave no one has ever ridden?
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