The Portuguese School of Extremes and Applications is nowadays well recognised by the international scientific community, and in my opinion, the organisation of a NATO Advanced Study Institute on Statistical Extremes and Applications, which took place at Vimeiro in the summer of 1983, was a landmark for the international recognition of the group. The dynamic of publication has been very high and the topics under investigation in the area of Extremes have been quite diverse. In this article, attention will be paid essentially to some of the scientific achievements of the author in this field.