Over the past decade and change, the realm of big wave surfing has seen a gravitational ... a few years to get your head around it, but these girls are starting to do that. It’s not easy ...

Known as big-wave surfing, it sees experienced surfers towed into huge swells as high as 60ft (18m) or, as Al describes them, "as big as houses". Charles McQuillan The north coast is a hugely ...

"I would always see people surfing and I'd say to myself: 'But where are the girls who surf?'" says the 25-year-old. "I thought: 'Why don't I go surfing, represent my country, represent Africa ...