In Hemmings’ neck of the woods, two-wheel drive, half-ton pickups are about as common as palm trees. But even in places where palm trees grow wild, four-wheel drive is fashionable on everything from ...

"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 during a recent surf trip to ...

Alo Slebir during a recent surf trip to Ireland (left) and while riding a potentially historic wave in December off the coast of California. Alo Slebir had just arrived on Maui’s north shore late last ...