Alms, Paige

Statuesque big-wave surfer from Haiku, Maui; 2016 big-wave world champion. Alms was born (1988) in British Columbia and moved to Maui with her family at age nine. A year later she began surfing regularly in the wind-whipped breaks near Ho’okipa. Alms took to big waves quickly, cutting her teeth on heavy water outer reef breaks by the time she was 15. Two years later she was regularly tackling big ...