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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72 entries on the list.

Climber Grade Climbs
1 Will Bosi 9A Alphane, Burden of Dreams, Return of the Sleepwalker, Spots of Time
2 Simon Lorenzi 9A Soudain Seul, Alphane, Burden of Dreams
3 Aidan Roberts 9A Alphane, Spots of Time, Arrival of the Birds
4 Shawn Raboutou 9A Megatron, Alphane
5 Nalle Hukkataival 9A Burden of Dreams
6 Nico Pelorson 9A Soudain Seul
7 Daniel Woods 9A Return of the Sleepwalker
8 Camille Coudert 9A Soudain Seul
9 Vadim Timonov 9A Blackflip SDS
10 Charles Albert 9A L’Ombre du Voyageur
11 Jakob Schubert 9A Alphane
12 Elias Iagnemma 9A Burden of Dreams
13 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
14 Matt Fultz 8C+ Hypnotized Minds, Sleepwalker, Grand Illusion, Creature from the Black Lagoon, Brace For the Cure, Moonlight Sonata, Vecchio Leone SDS, Big Z
15 Jimmy Webb 8C+ Creature from the Black Lagoon, Sleepwalker, Ephyra, Off the Wagon Low, Poison the Well, Insomniac
16 Dave Graham 8C+ Creature from the Black Lagoon, Hypnotized Minds, Euclase, Fuck the System, Celestite
17 Ryuichi Murai 8C+ Epitaph, United, Nexus, Floatin, Sleepwalker
18 Niccolò Ceria 8C+ Ephyra, Gioia, La Révolutionnaire Assis, Off the Wagon Low, Pneuma
19 Adam Ondra 8C+ Terranova, Gioia, Ledoborec, Brutal Rider
20 Giuliano Cameroni 8C+ Poison the Well, REM, Ephyra, Off the Wagon Low
21 Andy Lamb 8C+ Creature from the Black Lagoon, Insomniac, Sleepwalker, Event Horizon
22 Francesco Berardino 8C+ Off the Wagon Low, Celestite, REM, Return of the Dreamtime
23 Dai Koyamada 8C+ Epitaph, The Story of Two Worlds (Low Start), Nayuta
24 Griffin Whiteside 8C+ Creature from the Black Lagoon, Sleepwalker, Howl at the Moon SDS
25 Ryohei Kameyama 8C+ No Kpote Only, La Révolutionnaire Assis, Floatin
26 Zach Galla 8C+ Grand Illusion, Sleepwalker, The Process
27 Yannick Flohé 8C+ Off the Wagon Low, Ephyra, Return of the Dreamtime
28 Carlo Traversi 8C+ Creature from the Black Lagoon, The Dark Side
29 Sean Bailey 8C+ Grand Illusion, Devilution
30 Nathan Williams 8C+ Sleepwalker, Creature from the Black Lagoon
31 Pablo Hammack 8C+ Sleepwalker, Creature from the Black Lagoon
32 Kazuma Ise 8C+ Hallucination, Epitaph
33 Toru Nakajima 8C+ Epitaph, Regret
34 Florian Wientjes 8C+ Off the Wagon Low, Floatin
35 Sam Weir 8C+ REM, Fuck the System
36 Noah Wheeler 8C+ Sleepwalker, Insomniac
37 Christian Core 8C+ Gioia
38 Shinichiro Nomura 8C+ Hydrangea
39 Rustam Gelmanov 8C+ Hypnotized Minds
40 Daisuke Ichimiya 8C+ Creature from the Black Lagoon
41 Akira Waku 8C+ Hydrangea
42 Nathaniel Coleman 8C+ Grand Illusion
43 Paul Robinson 8C+ REM
44 Dylan Barks 8C+ Creature from the Black Lagoon
45 Taylor McNeill 8C+ Moonlight Sonata
46 Sergii Topishko 8C+ Off the Wagon Low
47 Jun Shibanuma 8C+ Hydrangea
48 Ignacio Sánchez González 8C+ Daños Con-Laterales
49 Takuya Nakajima 8C+ Hydrangea
50 Yuta Imaizumi 8C+ Nayuta
51 Clément Lechaptois 8C+ Fuck the System
52 Colin Duffy 8C+ Bookkeeping
53 Tim Reuser 8C+ La Révolutionnaire Assis
54 Nicolai Užnik 8C+ Emotional Landscapes
55 Michiel Nieuwenhuijsen 8C+ La Révolutionnaire Assis
56 Austin Purdy 8C+ Insomniac
57 Liam Andrews-Bancroft 8C+ Insomniac
58 Keenan Takahashi 8C+ Insomniac
59 Martin Keller 8C+ Gateway
60 Zander Waller 8C+ Sleepwalker
61 Kai Whaley 8C+ Sleepwalker
62 Stefano Carnati 8C+ Vecchio Leone SDS
63 Lasse von Freier 8C+ Off the Wagon Low
64 Pablo Zamora 8C+ Muerte por Asfixia
65 Keiichiro Korenaga 8C+ Nexus
66 Jabee Kim 8C+ La Révolutionnaire Assis
67 David Fitzgerald 8C+ Big Z
68 Solly Kemball-Dorey 8C+ Isles of Wonder SDS
69 Jorge Díaz-Rullo 8C+ Muerte por Asfixia
70 Pietro Vidi 8C+ Fuck the System
71 Thilo Schröter 8C+ Tsunami
72 Owen Whaley 8C+ Grand Illusion