The Persistence Of Hope

The higher the latitude you venture in Europe the more wild and unpredictable the weather. If the surf is hard to predict the weather equally so. 

Sure in France, Spain and Portugal you get good storms. But it’s a variation on a theme of hot, warm, nice, maybe some rain. Unless you’re in the mountains. The higher latitudes are way more schizophrenic. Snow. Hail. Gales. Wearing all the clothes you brought with you weather. 

Frenchman Nelson Cloarec, Australia’s Micah Lester and Basque chap Adrian Fernandez de Valderrama from #TEAMONEILL spent ten hopeful days somewhere in the colder reaches of Northern Europe hunting for perfection.

The Persistence of Hope premiered on the big screen at the London Surf Film Festival on September 23, 2016.

Cinematography & edit: Sharpy
Water footage: Tim Nunn, Micah Lester
Team O'Neill surfers: Nelson Cloarec, Micah Lester, Adrian Fernandez de Valderrama