Stormrider Photographer

Kevin Lovett

Warrior
John Geisel realizing the dream, June 30th, 1975. This discovery not only fuelled the dreams of other surfers worldwide, it also changed the future of Nias’ Lagundri Bay community.
In 1975, after their first stay in Lagundri, the author Kevin Lovett’s best friend and co-explorer John Geisel headed on to Europe overland. Some months later, in a van in the mountains of Iran, he succumbed to malaria and died.

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