Hard Boulder Problem Ascents

A list of ascents of boulder problems at 8C+ and above. The aim is for the list to be definitive but currently there are likely to be missing ascents.

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204 entries on the list.

Climber Climb Grade Ascent Date
1 Nalle Hukkataival Burden of Dreams 9A 24th Oct 2016
2 Simon Lorenzi Soudain Seul 9A 8th Feb 2021
3 Nico Pelorson Soudain Seul 9A 16th Mar 2021
4 Daniel Woods Return of the Sleepwalker 9A 31st Mar 2021
5 Shawn Raboutou Megatron 9A 2022
6 Camille Coudert Soudain Seul 9A 12th Feb 2022
7 Shawn Raboutou Alphane 9A 6th Apr 2022
8 Aidan Roberts Alphane 9A 19th Oct 2022
9 Will Bosi Alphane 9A 31st Oct 2022
10 Simon Lorenzi Alphane 9A 15th Dec 2022
11 Will Bosi Burden of Dreams 9A 12th Apr 2023
12 Vadim Timonov Blackflip SDS 9A 17th May 2023
13 Charles Albert L’Ombre du Voyageur 9A 18th Oct 2023
14 Jakob Schubert Alphane 9A 21st Dec 2023
15 Simon Lorenzi Burden of Dreams 9A 27th Dec 2023
16 Aidan Roberts Spots of Time 9A Feb 2024
17 Sean Bailey Shaolin 9A 17th Feb 2024
18 Will Bosi Return of the Sleepwalker 9A 19th Feb 2024
19 Aidan Roberts Arrival of the Birds 9A Mar 2024
20 Elias Iagnemma Burden of Dreams 9A 26th Mar 2024
21 Will Bosi Spots of Time 9A 19th Oct 2024
22 Nathaniel Coleman No One Mourns the Wicked 9A Dec 2024
23 Sean Bailey Alphane 9A Before 9th Dec 2024
24 Noah Wheeler Return of the Sleepwalker 9A 30th Dec 2024
25 Elias Iagnemma The Big Slamm 9A Jan 2025
26 Adam Ondra Soudain Seul 9A 9th Feb 2025
27 Nicolai Užnik Mount Doom 9A 1st Mar 2025
28 Noah Wheeler Shaolin 9A 6th Mar 2025
29 Simon Lorenzi Return of the Sleepwalker 9A Between 9th Mar 2025 and 10th Mar 2025
30 Christian Core Gioia 8C+ Mar 2008
31 Daniel Woods Hypnotized Minds 8C+ 21st Oct 2010
32 Adam Ondra Terranova 8C+ 10th Nov 2011
33 Adam Ondra Gioia 8C+ 6th Dec 2011
34 Dai Koyamada The Story of Two Worlds (Low Start) 8C+ 22nd Mar 2012
35 Daniel Woods The Ice Knife SDS 8C+ 2nd Nov 2013
36 Nalle Hukkataival Gioia 8C+ Feb 2014
37 Daniel Woods The Process 8C+ 15th Jan 2015
38 Rustam Gelmanov Hypnotized Minds 8C+ 18th Jun 2016
39 Daniel Woods Creature from the Black Lagoon 8C+ 27th Sep 2016
40 Dave Graham Creature from the Black Lagoon 8C+ Oct 2016
41 Dai Koyamada Nayuta 8C+ 4th Apr 2017
42 Jimmy Webb Creature from the Black Lagoon 8C+ 20th Aug 2017
43 Daisuke Ichimiya Creature from the Black Lagoon 8C+ 15th Sep 2017
44 Charles Albert La Révolutionnaire Assis 8C+ Nov 2017
45 Griffin Whiteside Creature from the Black Lagoon 8C+ 20th Jul 2018
46 Shawn Raboutou Creature from the Black Lagoon 8C+ 30th Sep 2018
47 Shawn Raboutou Off the Wagon Low 8C+ 27th Oct 2018
48 Charles Albert Hypothèse Assis 8C+ Dec 2018
49 Charles Albert No Kpote Only 8C+ Dec 2018
50 Jimmy Webb Sleepwalker 8C+ 15th Dec 2018
51 Daniel Woods Sleepwalker 8C+ 21st Jan 2019
52 Nalle Hukkataival Sleepwalker 8C+ 2nd Feb 2019
53 Griffin Whiteside Sleepwalker 8C+ Between 2nd Feb 2019 and 26th Jan 2020
54 Giuliano Cameroni Poison the Well 8C+ 12th Feb 2019
55 Giuliano Cameroni REM 8C+ 22nd Feb 2019
56 Ryohei Kameyama No Kpote Only 8C+ 9th Mar 2019
57 Ryohei Kameyama La Révolutionnaire Assis 8C+ 16th Mar 2019
58 Jimmy Webb Ephyra 8C+ 29th Mar 2019
59 Dave Graham Hypnotized Minds 8C+ Oct 2019
60 Ryuichi Murai United 8C+ 7th Nov 2019
61 Nathaniel Coleman Grand Illusion 8C+ 2020
62 Drew Ruana Sleepwalker 8C+ 26th Jan 2020
63 Jimmy Webb Off the Wagon Low 8C+ 27th Feb 2020
64 Paul Robinson REM 8C+ 9th Mar 2020
65 Daniel Woods Off the Wagon Low 8C+ 9th Mar 2020
66 Jimmy Webb Poison the Well 8C+ 7th Apr 2020
67 Adam Ondra Ledoborec 8C+ 24th May 2020
68 Adam Ondra Brutal Rider 8C+ 25th May 2020
69 Carlo Traversi Creature from the Black Lagoon 8C+ 24th Jul 2020
70 Drew Ruana Creature from the Black Lagoon 8C+ 16th Aug 2020
71 Aidan Roberts Superpowers 8C+ 11th Sep 2020
72 Matt Fultz Hypnotized Minds 8C+ 28th Sep 2020
73 Nico Pelorson No Kpote Only 8C+ 7th Oct 2020
74 Sean Bailey Grand Illusion 8C+ 2nd Nov 2020
75 Niccolò Ceria Ephyra 8C+ 10th Nov 2020
76 Niccolò Ceria Gioia 8C+ Dec 2020
77 Nathan Williams Sleepwalker 8C+ 27th Dec 2020
78 Shawn Raboutou Big Z 8C+ 29th Dec 2020
79 Griffin Whiteside Howl at the Moon SDS 8C+ 2021
80 Pablo Hammack Sleepwalker 8C+ Feb 2021
81 Matt Fultz Sleepwalker 8C+ 3rd Feb 2021
82 Elias Iagnemma Gioia 8C+ 13th Feb 2021
83 Giuliano Cameroni Ephyra 8C+ 16th Mar 2021
84 Drew Ruana Bloody Sunday SDS 8C+ 30th Apr 2021
85 Giuliano Cameroni Off the Wagon Low 8C+ 26th May 2021
86 Daniel Woods Grand Illusion 8C+ 7th Jun 2021
87 Matt Fultz Grand Illusion 8C+ 22nd Jun 2021
88 Shawn Raboutou Fuck the System 8C+ Jul 2021
89 Matt Fultz Creature from the Black Lagoon 8C+ 3rd Jul 2021
90 Drew Ruana Insomniac 8C+ 9th Jul 2021
91 Andy Lamb Creature from the Black Lagoon 8C+ 18th Aug 2021
92 Dylan Barks Creature from the Black Lagoon 8C+ 30th Aug 2021
93 Taylor McNeill Moonlight Sonata 8C+ 3rd Oct 2021
94 Ryuichi Murai Nexus 8C+ 23rd Oct 2021
95 Zach Galla Grand Illusion 8C+ 14th Nov 2021
96 Simon Lorenzi Off the Wagon Low 8C+ 24th Nov 2021
97 Ryuichi Murai Floatin 8C+ 10th Dec 2021
98 Kazuma Ise Hallucination 8C+ 19th Dec 2021
99 Sergii Topishko Off the Wagon Low 8C+ 26th Dec 2021
100 Yannick Flohé Off the Wagon Low 8C+ 1st Jan 2022
101 Shawn Raboutou The Story of Three Worlds 8C+ 2022
102 Simon Lorenzi Big Conviction 8C+ 23rd Jan 2022
103 Elias Iagnemma Ganesh 8C+ 2nd Feb 2022
104 Simon Lorenzi La Révolutionnaire Assis 8C+ 12th Feb 2022
105 Niccolò Ceria La Révolutionnaire Assis 8C+ Mar 2022
106 Toru Nakajima Epitaph 8C+ 1st Apr 2022
107 Dave Graham Euclase 8C+ 20th Apr 2022
108 Matt Fultz Brace For the Cure 8C+ Jun 2022
109 Ignacio Sánchez González Daños Con-Laterales 8C+ Jun 2022
110 Dave Graham Fuck the System 8C+ 25th Jun 2022
111 Aidan Roberts Isles of Wonder SDS 8C+ Jul 2022
112 Drew Ruana Distortion 8C+ Aug 2022
113 Will Bosi Honey Badger 8C+ 10th Aug 2022
114 Shawn Raboutou Insomniac 8C+ Sep 2022
115 Jimmy Webb Insomniac 8C+ Sep 2022
116 Daniel Woods Insomniac 8C+ 15th Sep 2022
117 Yuta Imaizumi Nayuta 8C+ Oct 2022
118 Drew Ruana The Ice Knife SDS 8C+ 5th Oct 2022
119 Clément Lechaptois Fuck the System 8C+ 15th Oct 2022
120 Aidan Roberts Vecchio Leone SDS 8C+ Nov 2022
121 Will Bosi Ephyra 8C+ 8th Nov 2022
122 Matt Fultz Moonlight Sonata 8C+ 13th Nov 2022
123 Drew Ruana Bookkeeping 8C+ 21st Dec 2022
124 Kazuma Ise Epitaph 8C+ 2023
125 Yannick Flohé Ephyra 8C+ 24th Jan 2023
126 Yannick Flohé Return of the Dreamtime 8C+ 31st Jan 2023
127 Niccolò Ceria Off the Wagon Low 8C+ 3rd Feb 2023
128 Ryuichi Murai Sleepwalker 8C+ 6th Feb 2023
129 Drew Ruana Maxwell's Demon Low 8C+ 16th Feb 2023
130 Florian Wientjes Off the Wagon Low 8C+ 18th Feb 2023
131 Tim Reuser La Révolutionnaire Assis 8C+ 26th Feb 2023
132 Colin Duffy Bookkeeping 8C+ 26th Feb 2023
133 Nicolai Užnik Emotional Landscapes 8C+ 16th Mar 2023
134 Matt Fultz Vecchio Leone SDS 8C+ 27th Mar 2023
135 Dave Graham Celestite 8C+ 28th Mar 2023
136 Michiel Nieuwenhuijsen La Révolutionnaire Assis 8C+ 13th Apr 2023
137 Will Bosi The Wild South 8C+ 26th Apr 2023
138 Francesco Berardino Off the Wagon Low 8C+ 17th May 2023
139 Drew Ruana Howl at the Moon SDS 8C+ 17th May 2023
140 Will Bosi Isles of Wonder SDS 8C+ 21st May 2023
141 Austin Purdy Insomniac 8C+ 11th Jun 2023
142 Liam Andrews-Bancroft Insomniac 8C+ Between 1st Jul 2023 and 31st Oct 2023
143 Andy Lamb Insomniac 8C+ 14th Jul 2023
144 Keenan Takahashi Insomniac 8C+ 18th Jul 2023
145 Martin Keller Gateway 8C+ Oct 2023
146 Zander Waller Sleepwalker 8C+ 12th Oct 2023
147 Ryohei Kameyama Floatin 8C+ Between 17th Oct 2023 and 1st Nov 2023
148 Florian Wientjes Floatin 8C+ 17th Oct 2023
149 Kai Whaley Sleepwalker 8C+ Nov 2023
150 Stefano Carnati Vecchio Leone SDS 8C+ 8th Nov 2023
151 Zach Galla Sleepwalker 8C+ 15th Dec 2023
152 Carlo Traversi The Dark Side 8C+ 23rd Dec 2023
153 Shawn Raboutou Devilution 8C+ Between 1st Jan 2024 and 3rd Apr 2024
154 Daniel Woods Adrenaline 8C+ Between 1st Jan 2024 and 7th Feb 2024
155 Niccolò Ceria Pneuma 8C+ 2024
156 Francesco Berardino Celestite 8C+ Jan 2024
157 Sean Bailey Devilution 8C+ Jan 2024
158 Shawn Raboutou United 8C+ 2024
159 Toru Nakajima Regret 8C+ Between 1st Jan 2024 and 1st Mar 2024
160 Andy Lamb Sleepwalker 8C+ 2nd Jan 2024
161 Lasse von Freier Off the Wagon Low 8C+ 2nd Jan 2024
162 Pablo Zamora Muerte por Asfixia 8C+ 4th Jan 2024
163 Sam Weir REM 8C+ 6th Jan 2024
164 Noah Wheeler Sleepwalker 8C+ 9th Jan 2024
165 Francesco Berardino REM 8C+ 15th Jan 2024
166 Francesco Berardino Return of the Dreamtime 8C+ 16th Jan 2024
167 Will Bosi Sleepwalker 8C+ 20th Jan 2024
168 Andy Lamb Event Horizon 8C+ 10th Feb 2024
169 Zach Galla The Process 8C+ 27th Feb 2024
170 Matt Fultz Big Z 8C+ 19th Mar 2024
171 Keiichiro Korenaga Nexus 8C+ Apr 2024
172 Jabee Kim La Révolutionnaire Assis 8C+ 22nd Apr 2024
173 David Fitzgerald Big Z 8C+ May 2024
174 Solly Kemball-Dorey Isles of Wonder SDS 8C+ 24th May 2024
175 Zach Galla Sosa 8C+ 28th May 2024
176 Jorge Díaz-Rullo Muerte por Asfixia 8C+ Jun 2024
177 Pietro Vidi Fuck the System 8C+ 12th Jun 2024
178 Sam Weir Fuck the System 8C+ 28th Jun 2024
179 Noah Wheeler Insomniac 8C+ 30th Aug 2024
180 Nathan Williams Creature from the Black Lagoon 8C+ 8th Sep 2024
181 Sean Bailey Floatin 8C+ Oct 2024
182 Thilo Schröter Tsunami 8C+ Oct 2024
183 Owen Whaley Grand Illusion 8C+ 16th Oct 2024
184 Austin Purdy Sword of Damocles 8C+ 26th Oct 2024
185 Yuta Imaizumi Floatin 8C+ 12th Nov 2024
186 Toru Nakajima Sleepwalker 8C+ Dec 2024
187 Adam Shahar Sleepwalker 8C+ Dec 2024
188 Nathan Phillips Deep Fake 8C+ 3rd Dec 2024
189 Hamish McArthur Big Z 8C+ 19th Dec 2024
190 Lee Sungsu The Process 8C+ 23rd Dec 2024
191 Jakob Schubert Return of the Dreamtime 8C+ 28th Dec 2024
192 Daisuke Ichimiya United 8C+ 2025
193 Jakob Schubert Vecchio Leone SDS 8C+ 12th Jan 2025
194 Jakob Schubert The Story of Three Worlds 8C+ 12th Jan 2025
195 Elias Iagnemma Ephyra 8C+ Feb 2025
196 Adam Shahar The Process 8C+ Feb 2025
197 Stefan Hochbaum Obsidan 8C+ 8th Feb 2025
198 Yannick Flohé The Story of Three Worlds 8C+ 15th Feb 2025
199 Austin Purdy Bookkeeping 8C+ 22nd Feb 2025
200 Giuliano Cameroni Curve Ball 8C+ Mar 2025
201 Matt Fultz Deep Fake 8C+ 17th Mar 2025
202 Jun Shibanuma Sleepwalker 8C+ 21st Mar 2025
203 Pablo Hammack Creature from the Black Lagoon 8C+
204 Aidan Roberts The Dark Side 8C+