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As the Rip Curl crew found out in Chile, it’s not just about riding down a mountain. It’s about the journey as a whole.

For the snowboarder that travels, there is no debate – the European Alps are at the top of the destination bucket list.

10 epic locations, 11 unique editors, and the world’s best surfers: Somewhere is the compilation of many hands making The Search.

In 2016 Wetsuit technology is still in its infancy with new features and technology adding to the surfers experience everyday. Rip Curl has been making wetsuits for over 40 years and we know what we are doing.

We’re talking unfathomable quantities and layers, going deeper and deeper, constantly growing, covering bits and pieces of the country. We’re talking about snow – or as the Japanese call it, “Yuki”.

It’s moments like that… those random experiences, those unique memories, that made this trip – and frankly, that are missing from a lot of surf trips these days.

In the 90’s, cinematographer Sonny Miller teamed up with Tom Curren and Rip Curl to make a series of surf films based on The Search…

An interesting yarn, true or not, but it raises the question: does it matter if you are not the first to surf a place if it’s pumping, and there’s someone else already there when you arrive?

Escape the every day and unleash the animal that hides within… Welcome to ‘Feral Kingdom’.

Before the Inter-web-a-net, the only way to experience The Search was visiting your local newsagent and getting a copy of the latest surf mag, flipping it over to mind-surf waves you’d only dream of in the Search ads. But how did it come about?

See Tom, Frankie, Davo & Byron charge huge previously unsurfed barrels.

There’s and old saying that goes “When the orange orchards are freezing in Florida, there’s barrels to be had in the West Indies!”