Horn, Kit

Enduring low-key big-wave surfer from Santa Monica, California. "A tremendous athlete," fellow big-wave rider Peter Cole said of Horn. "As good a waterman as I have known; the bigger the waves, the better he would surf." Christopher "Kit" Horn was born (1929) in Hollywood, the son of a phonograph salesman father and librarian mother, raised in Santa Monica, and began surfing at Sorrento Beach at ...