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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Sport
Kieran Pender

‘He’s maybe got a few screws loose’: the slab surfer taking extreme sport to new levels

‘For me it’s about removing yourself from everything,’ says West Australian surfer Kerby Brown.
‘For me it’s about removing yourself from everything,’ says West Australian surfer Kerby Brown. Photograph: Andrew Semark

Before his fatal attempt to summit Mount Everest almost a century ago, British mountaineer George Mallory was asked why he wanted to climb the world’s tallest peak. “Because it’s there,” he famously replied.

Watching Facing Monsters, a recently released feature-length surf film, the same question comes to mind. What would prompt someone to charge some of the world’s heaviest waves?

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