Strongest Male Boulderers

The best male boulderers.

This list aims to list any male boulderer who has climbed 8C+ or harder. It only lists ascents at the climbers hardest grade, so each climbers has a single entry on the list.

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84 entries on the list.

Climber Grade Climbs
1 Will Bosi 9A Alphane, Burden of Dreams, Return of the Sleepwalker, Spots of Time, Realm of Tor’ment
2 Simon Lorenzi 9A Soudain Seul, Alphane, Burden of Dreams, Return of the Sleepwalker
3 Aidan Roberts 9A Alphane, Spots of Time, Arrival of the Birds
4 Shawn Raboutou 9A Megatron, Alphane
5 Sean Bailey 9A Shaolin, Alphane
6 Elias Iagnemma 9A Burden of Dreams, The Big Slamm
7 Noah Wheeler 9A Return of the Sleepwalker, Shaolin
8 Hamish McArthur 9A Megatron, No One Mourns the Wicked
9 Nalle Hukkataival 9A Burden of Dreams
10 Nico Pelorson 9A Soudain Seul
11 Daniel Woods 9A Return of the Sleepwalker
12 Camille Coudert 9A Soudain Seul
13 Vadim Timonov 9A Blackflip SDS
14 Jakob Schubert 9A Alphane
15 Nathaniel Coleman 9A No One Mourns the Wicked
16 Adam Ondra 9A Soudain Seul
17 Nicolai Užnik 9A Mount Doom
18 Lee Sungsu 9A Burden of Dreams
19 Drew Ruana 8C+ Sleepwalker, Creature from the Black Lagoon, Bloody Sunday SDS, Insomniac, Distortion, The Ice Knife SDS, Bookkeeping, Maxwell's Demon Low, Howl at the Moon SDS
20 Matt Fultz 8C+ Hypnotized Minds, Sleepwalker, Grand Illusion, Creature from the Black Lagoon, Brace For the Cure, Moonlight Sonata, Vecchio Leone SDS, Big Z, Deep Fake
21 Jimmy Webb 8C+ Livin' Large, Creature from the Black Lagoon, Sleepwalker, Ephyra, Off the Wagon Low, Poison the Well, Insomniac
22 Dave Graham 8C+ Creature from the Black Lagoon, Hypnotized Minds, Euclase, Fuck the System, Celestite, Curve Ball
23 Giuliano Cameroni 8C+ Poison the Well, REM, Ephyra, Off the Wagon Low, Curve Ball
24 Ryuichi Murai 8C+ United, Nexus, Floatin, Sleepwalker, Livin' Large
25 Niccolò Ceria 8C+ Ephyra, Gioia, La Révolutionnaire, Off the Wagon Low, Pneuma
26 Zach Galla 8C+ Grand Illusion, Sleepwalker, The Process, Sosa, Hypnotized Minds
27 Andy Lamb 8C+ Creature from the Black Lagoon, Insomniac, Sleepwalker, Event Horizon
28 Yannick Flohé 8C+ Off the Wagon Low, Ephyra, Return of the Dreamtime, The Story of Three Worlds
29 Francesco Berardino 8C+ Off the Wagon Low, Celestite, REM, Return of the Dreamtime
30 Austin Purdy 8C+ Insomniac, Sword of Damocles, Bookkeeping, Distortion
31 Griffin Whiteside 8C+ Creature from the Black Lagoon, Sleepwalker, Howl at the Moon SDS
32 Ryohei Kameyama 8C+ No Kpote Only, La Révolutionnaire, Floatin
33 Toru Nakajima 8C+ Epitaph, Regret, Sleepwalker
34 Sam Weir 8C+ REM, Fuck the System, Brain Rot
35 Dai Koyamada 8C+ The Story of Two Worlds (Low Start), Nayuta
36 Daisuke Ichimiya 8C+ Creature from the Black Lagoon, United
37 Carlo Traversi 8C+ Creature from the Black Lagoon, The Dark Side
38 Nathan Williams 8C+ Sleepwalker, Creature from the Black Lagoon
39 Pablo Hammack 8C+ Sleepwalker, Creature from the Black Lagoon
40 Kazuma Ise 8C+ Hallucination, Epitaph
41 Yuta Imaizumi 8C+ Nayuta, Floatin
42 Clément Lechaptois 8C+ Fuck the System, Permanent Midnight Low
43 Florian Wientjes 8C+ Off the Wagon Low, Floatin
44 Liam Andrews-Bancroft 8C+ Insomniac, Creature from the Black Lagoon
45 Keenan Takahashi 8C+ Insomniac, The Dark Side
46 Stefano Carnati 8C+ Vecchio Leone SDS, Deep Fake
47 David Fitzgerald 8C+ Big Z, Last Line of Defense
48 Solly Kemball-Dorey 8C+ Isles of Wonder SDS, The Trident
49 Pietro Vidi 8C+ Fuck the System, Permanent Midnight Low
50 Thilo Schröter 8C+ Tsunami, Spray and Pray
51 Owen Whaley 8C+ Grand Illusion, Sosa
52 Adam Shahar 8C+ Sleepwalker, The Process
53 Ritsu Kayotani 8C+ Nexus, Floatin
54 Christian Core 8C+ Gioia
55 James Kassay 8C+ Wheel of Life Direct
56 Rustam Gelmanov 8C+ Hypnotized Minds
57 Paul Robinson 8C+ REM
58 Dylan Barks 8C+ Creature from the Black Lagoon
59 Taylor McNeill 8C+ Moonlight Sonata
60 Sergii Topishko 8C+ Off the Wagon Low
61 Ignacio Sánchez González 8C+ Daños Con-Laterales
62 Tim Reuser 8C+ La Révolutionnaire
63 Colin Duffy 8C+ Bookkeeping
64 Michiel Nieuwenhuijsen 8C+ La Révolutionnaire
65 Martin Keller 8C+ Gateway
66 Zander Waller 8C+ Sleepwalker
67 Kai Whaley 8C+ Sleepwalker
68 Lasse von Freier 8C+ Off the Wagon Low
69 Pablo Zamora 8C+ Muerte por Asfixia
70 Keiichiro Korenaga 8C+ Nexus
71 Jabee Kim 8C+ La Révolutionnaire
72 Jorge Díaz-Rullo 8C+ Muerte por Asfixia
73 Nathan Phillips 8C+ Deep Fake
74 Stefan Hochbaum 8C+ Obsidan
75 Jun Shibanuma 8C+ Sleepwalker
76 Simone Tentori 8C+ Ephyra
77 Eli Perry 8C+ Grand Illusion
78 Brian Squire 8C+ Grand Illusion
79 Hyunbin Min 8C+ United
80 Tamas Zupan 8C+ Brain Rot
81 Ethan Salvo 8C+ Event Horizon
82 Christopher Cosser 8C+ Creature from the Black Lagoon
83 Beckett Hsin 8C+ Creature from the Black Lagoon
84 Luke Gerhardt 8C+ Sleepwalker