Nic von Rupp: The big wave surfer with a fear of rocks and being underwater
As a child, Nic von Rupp had an abject terror of rocks. Today, his phobia of being under the water makes his career choice of a big-wave surfer all the more remarkable. Big-wave surfing is dangerous enough — the world’s best taken into the maelstrom by jet ski — but Von Rupp makes the thrill-seeking […]