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The end of the road. It’s a phrase that connotes desolation, a time to turn around, nothing left to see. Those are your directions to find Teahupo’o, the Tahitian site of the Olympic Games surfing competition, but it is hardly a blockade to exploration. It’s a gateway — to both paradise and fear. A place of exquisite beauty and some of the most dangerous surf on Earth. Because it’s literally on a path to nowhere, breaking too far offshore to be clearly seen from land, Teahupo’o (Tay-ah-hoo-POH-o…
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