Dylan Graves is quickly becoming surfing’s answer to David Attenborough or Bear Grylls. Whether he’s chasing bizarre novelty waves or venturing into some of the planet’s most remote coastlines, Dylan has carved out a niche where surfing is just one piece of a much bigger adventure. His latest film with FCS GO, ‘The Outer Edge of Alaska’, adds to that catalogue.

The film follows Dylan deep into Alaska’s remote Shumagin Islands aboard the Milo, a retired fishing vessel transformed into the ultimate cold-water surf exploration vessel. It’s part surf film, part David Attenborough wildlife documentary, as Dylan and the crew paddle alongside orcas, dodge bears on remote shorelines and surf empty waves beneath circling puffins in one of the richest marine ecosystems on the planet.

If the Milo sounds familiar, it’s because it was also the expedition vessel featured in ‘The Search for Volcano Island’, the recent adventure film documenting another Alaskan mission into the Aleutian Islands. While the destination and cast may have changed, the spirit remains the same: pushing beyond the edge of surfing’s known map in search of places few have ever seen, let alone surfed.

Guided by Alaskan surf pioneer Captain Mike McCune, Dylan and the crew weave their way through the Ring of Fire, a 40,000-kilometer horseshoe-shaped belt of intense seismic and volcanic activity encircling the Pacific Ocean, exploring hundreds of miles of isolated coastline where wildlife, weather and wilderness are as unpredictable as the waves themselves. The result is less a high-performance surf edit and more a celebration of exploration, proving that some of surfing’s greatest adventures begin long before anyone paddles into a wave.