| Climber Name | # Ascents Recorded | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Vadim Timonov | 30 | Vadim Timinov is somewhat of an enigma in global climbing. Due to his Russian citizenship it makes travel inaccessible for him. Despite this he boasts a wealth of hard boulder ascents, including Monkey Wedding 8C/V15 and The Understanding 8C/V15. He has also flashed Mirta 8B+/V14. In 2022 Vadim begun projecting Blackflip SDS and in May 2023 he got the first ascent giving it 8C+/9A and later retro upgrading it to 9A/V17. |
| Andy Pollitt | 29 | Mark Pretty on the first time he met Andy:
References[1] North Stack Wall, 1980s https://www.facebook.com/climbing.in.the.80s/photos/a.270388289694020/3463204157079068 [2] Andy in Longland's Cafe, Hathersage 1987. By Bernard Newman https://www.instagram.com/p/CZYqXzmNuWS/ [4] https://www.thebmc.co.uk/remembering-andy-pollitt [5] Interview with Mark Pretty September 2017, https://www.ukclimbing.com/articles/features/mark_zippy_pretty_and_andy_pollitt-9762 |
| Billy Ridal | 29 | |
| Hazel Findlay | 29 | Hazel Findlay is one of the UK's most accomplished female climbers with many hard sport and trad ascents to her name. The daughter of Steve Findlay, she started climbing at an early age and was active around the south west of the UK. In 2011 she climbed Once Upon a Time in the Southwest at Dyers Lookout and became the first British woman to climb E9, and in 2014 she climbed Fish Eye at Oliana to become the first British woman to climb 8c. Hazel has continually expanded the limits of her climbing with a long string of impressive sport and trad climbs. Of particular note is her ascent of Magic Line E10/8c+ in 2019, a Ron Kauk route in Yosemite with a reputation born from repelling a slew of very capable aspirants. Hazel's ascent was only the third in 25 years, and the second placing the gear on lead. In 2022 she became the second British woman (after Emma Twyford) to climb 9a with her ascent of Escalatamàsters. Alongside her climbing she has a deep interest in the mental aspects of climbing and runs Strong Mind, a coaching company focused on mental techniques for improving your climbing. References[1] Interview with Soline Kentzel for grimper.com, May 2023 https://www.grimper.com/news-femmes-falaises-hazel-findlay-you-don-need-balls-to-be-bold [2] https://open.spotify.com/episode/7ckmpivT5UIrFCU7idZqNg? |
| John Allen | 29 | John was a prolific and gifted climber who established a host of hard, classic routes on his local gritstone crags in the peak district. Lines that had been eyed up by many fell to this prodigious young talent. He climbed Old Friends when he was just 14 and continued adding quality new first ascents from there, such as Hairless Heart, White Wand, Profit of Doom and London Wall which were climbed within a 2 week period at age 16! While later climbers pushed the numbers up John added a plethora of high quality lines such as West Side Story at Burbage West. References[1] Obituary on UKClimbing.com by Graham Hoey, 27th May 2020 https://www.ukclimbing.com/articles/features/the_day_the_music_died_-_remembering_john_allen-12803 |
| Laura Rogora | 29 | |
| Leo Skinner | 29 | Welsh prodigy living in the shadow of his father Rich Skinner. |
| Sam Prior | 29 | Sam is the co-host of the Careless Talk Climbing Podcast alongside Aidan Roberts. He also owns two climbing walls, The Ballroom and Social Climbing. References[1] Interview with Xa White for ukclimbing.com, May 2023 https://www.ukclimbing.com/articles/features/sam_prior_on_projects_parenthood_and_new_perspectives-15173 |
| Dave Mason | 28 | |
| Martin Stráník | 28 | |
| Orrin Coley | 28 | |
| Tarjei Hamre | 28 | |
| Tim Blake | 28 | |
| Tyler Landman | 28 | Tyler Landman is considered by many as one of the greatest British boulderers of all time, and at one point one of the worlds best. Ty has displayed excellent ability from a young age with him impressively repeating Voyager (8B), The Ace (8B) and Dreamtime (pre break) (8B+) at 17! The following year he repeated the legendary Jade (8B+) and Ode to the Modern Man (8B+). Over the next year he would repeat serval hard boulders including Practice of the Wild (8B+), New Base Line (8B+) and Radja (8B+). In February of 2009 Ty went to Fontainebleau to film the legendary Between The Trees, in which he accented multiple hard boulder, but most notably Satan i Helvete Assis (Pre December 2013) (8C). He was also the 2017 British Bouldering Champion. Interestingly with Ty despite being at the top of the global bouldering world his focused switched to that of a career as a doctor. In 2024 Ty achieved this goal graduating as a doctor in America. References[1] https://www.ukclimbing.com/articles/features/outspoken_-_tyler_landman-13258 [2] https://soundcloud.com/user-569917310/outspoken-tyler-landman |
| Andy Lamb | 27 | References[1] Second 8a.nu account https://www.8a.nu/user/peter-satt/bouldering |
| Dani Andrada | 27 | References[1] Features in La Obsesión [2] Interview with 8a.nu, 2018 https://www.8a.nu/news/dani-andrada-4-015-routes-and-boulders-8a-or-harder |
| Emma Twyford | 27 | North wales based crusher and first British woman to climb 9a (skipping 8c+!) with her ascet of Big Bang at Lower Pen Trwyn in 2019. |
| Katie Lamb | 27 | References |
| Neil Gresham | 27 | Neil Gresham is a British climber who is notable for his had trad ascents, including early repeats of notable test pieces such as Johnny Dawes' Indian Face E9 and Neil Bentley's Equilibrium E10 as well as making his own contributions to hard trad in the uk with routes such as Lexicon E11 and Final Score E10. As well as his trad climbing Neil was an early adopter of deep water soloing in the UK, establishing some of the harder DWS lines in the UK such as
References[1] Interview with Dave MacLeod 2018, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2wgXc_blao [2] Interview with Niall Grimes part 1, 2024 https://open.spotify.com/episode/4H9lcr8Fp4lR6lMMmJa8Yt? [3] Interview with Niall Grimes part 2, 2024 https://open.spotify.com/episode/5cac0uPMB1TYDaUF8XN06f? |
| Sam Weir | 27 |