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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80 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 Assis, Off the Wagon Low, Pneuma
26 Andy Lamb 8C+ Creature from the Black Lagoon, Insomniac, Sleepwalker, Event Horizon
27 Zach Galla 8C+ Grand Illusion, Sleepwalker, The Process, Sosa
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 Griffin Whiteside 8C+ Creature from the Black Lagoon, Sleepwalker, Howl at the Moon SDS
31 Ryohei Kameyama 8C+ No Kpote Only, La Révolutionnaire Assis, Floatin
32 Toru Nakajima 8C+ Epitaph, Regret, Sleepwalker
33 Austin Purdy 8C+ Insomniac, Sword of Damocles, Bookkeeping
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 Keenan Takahashi 8C+ Insomniac, The Dark Side
45 David Fitzgerald 8C+ Big Z, Last Line of Defense
46 Owen Whaley 8C+ Grand Illusion, Sosa
47 Adam Shahar 8C+ Sleepwalker, The Process
48 Christian Core 8C+ Gioia
49 Rustam Gelmanov 8C+ Hypnotized Minds
50 Paul Robinson 8C+ REM
51 Dylan Barks 8C+ Creature from the Black Lagoon
52 Taylor McNeill 8C+ Moonlight Sonata
53 Sergii Topishko 8C+ Off the Wagon Low
54 Ignacio Sánchez González 8C+ Daños Con-Laterales
55 Tim Reuser 8C+ La Révolutionnaire Assis
56 Colin Duffy 8C+ Bookkeeping
57 Michiel Nieuwenhuijsen 8C+ La Révolutionnaire Assis
58 Liam Andrews-Bancroft 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 Solly Kemball-Dorey 8C+ Isles of Wonder SDS
68 Jorge Díaz-Rullo 8C+ Muerte por Asfixia
69 Pietro Vidi 8C+ Fuck the System
70 Thilo Schröter 8C+ Tsunami
71 Nathan Phillips 8C+ Deep Fake
72 Stefan Hochbaum 8C+ Obsidan
73 Jun Shibanuma 8C+ Sleepwalker
74 Simone Tentori 8C+ Ephyra
75 Eli Perry 8C+ Grand Illusion
76 Ritsu Kayotani 8C+ Nexus
77 Brian Squire 8C+ Grand Illusion
78 Hyunbin Min 8C+ United
79 Tamas Zupan 8C+ Brain Rot
80 Ethan Salvo 8C+ Event Horizon