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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88 entries on the list.

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