"It was something that I had never seen before out there," Alo Slebir, a veteran of large swells, tells PEOPLE Alo Slebir/Instagram; bigwavechallenge/Youtube Alo Slebir had just arrived on Maui’s ...

A California surfer shredded a monster wave at Mavericks last week — and may have ridden into the record books. Alessandro “Alo” Slebir, 23, was surfing with friends on Dec. 23 when he caught what ...

A California surfer may have set a new world record with a wave he caught last month, and the video of the feat looks like a scene straight out of Hollywood. Alessandro “Alo” Slebir, a 23-year-old ...

A 23-year-old surfer in Santa Cruz, California, is starting the new year on a wave of glory. On Dec. 23, Alessandro “Alo” Slebir rode a wave that some people believe may be as tall as 108 feet at the ...

ABOUT WHAT IT WAS LIKE....TO RIDE THAT POTENTIALLY RECORD BREAKING WAVE.... THIS IS SANTA CRUZ SURFER ALO SLYBER.. RIDING A MONSTER WAVE AT MAVERICK'S JUST DAYS BEFORE CHRISTMAS.. A WAVE THAT COULD ...

At about 3:15 p.m. on Dec. 23, as a powerful winter swell raged on the California coast and left the Santa Cruz Wharf snapped ...

SANTA CRUZ – Every time a massive swell is forecast, Santa Cruz’s hard-charging, big wave surfer Alessandro “Alo” Slebir can hardly contain himself. Several times each winter, Slebir drives an hour up ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The business of measuring big waves is a tricky one. There’s multiple entities with their own calculation methods, there’s debate ...

HALF MOON BAY, California (KSBW) — Santa Cruz surfer Alessandro “Alo” Slebir surfed a wave just two days before Christmas that could get him the best gift a surfer could ask for: a world record for ...