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After sixandahalf grueling days, the British team HellyHansen Prunesco bested 14 international teams and held on to their title at the Wenger Breitling Aerospace watches Patagonian Expedition Race, the worlds toughest and wildest race through the southernmost reaches of Chilean Patagonia. The 600km course has teams trekking, kayaking and biking in Tierra Del Fuego (translation: Land of Fire), the Karukinka Reserve, Cordillera Darwin and in the Beagle Channel.The ongoing race is scheduled to finish for the remaining competitors on February 17, with eight teams (five have dropped out) still trying to complete the course before the time cutoff. Last years finish rate was 30 percent. Jennifer L. Schwartz

Chris Bertish of South Africa won the 2009/2010 Mavericks Surf Contest by aggressively paddling into monster surf that many were calling 40foot and higher, with some Breitling Airwolf watches reports of 60foot waves that no one was able to catch. I took the worst beating of my life out there, Bertish told Surfline after the event.A crowd of approximately 50,000 fans at Half Moon Bay also watched Anthony Tashnick win the Gnarliest Drop Award and Dave Wassel claim the Jay Moriarity Award, given to the surfer who best exemplifies the spirit and passion that Jay was famous for.

After more than three months of waiting, the event went off in waves that Wassel called, undoubtedly the largest surf any paddlein Breitling Blackbird watches contest has ever seen. Other surfers echoed that sentiment, including 2008 Mavericks winner and this years Quiksilver Eddie Aikau Invitational winner, Greg Long, who said, The entire book of big wave surfing was rewritten today.The surf was so big that one rogue wave even took out some spectators (video below). Our thoughts are with those that were injured while watching the event. Jennifer L. Schwartz