In 1966, footage of Mike Hynson walking atop his longboard debuted in theaters across the world. Alongside Robert August and filmmaker Bruce Brown, Hynson’s globe-trotting in The Endless Summer helped ...

SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — The life of surf icon Mike Hynson was celebrated Saturday with a heartfelt paddle out at Windansea Beach. The gathering took place on what would have been Hynson’s 83rd ...

The New Year is off to a mournful start for the surf community after losing one of their own. At age 82, "The Endless Summer" star and talented surfer Mike Hynson passed away, leaving a scar on the ...

As the Saturday morning haze burned off into clear skies, surfing’s elite began to gather in droves along La Jolla’s reefs, to remember Mike Hynson, one of modern surfing’s true originals, who died on ...

La Jolla surfer Mike Hynson may be a legend locally, but this summer, his place in surfing history will be set in even bigger stone. Hynson will be inducted in August onto the Surfing Walk of Fame in ...

“The Endless Summer” was released in 1966, and remains one of the most popular films ever made about surfing. Recently, “The Birth of the Endless Summer,” a documentary about the making of the ...

Mike Hynson, who epitomized the image of the bronzed surf god as a star of the hit 1966 surfing documentary "The Endless Summer" and, with his outlaw instincts, embodied the rebel ethos of the sport ...

Surfing legend and "Endless Summer" icon Mike Hynson passed away last week at the age of 82. The free-spirited board builder, hot-dogger, and master of style became a symbol of counter-culture ...

He was handsome and brash and cemented a reputation for navigating the San Diego County surf long before he was captured on film and propelled to worldwide celebrity. Michael Hynson, co-star of the ...

It's 2 a.m. in New Delhi, halfway through a hot night in August 1967, and Mike Hynson is still awake and sweating in his hotel room. The pressure is on--it's a feeling of impending doom that Hynson, a ...