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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76 entries on the list.

Climber Grade Climbs
1 Simon Lorenzi 9A Soudain Seul, Alphane, Burden of Dreams, Return of the Sleepwalker
2 Will Bosi 9A Alphane, Burden of Dreams, Return of the Sleepwalker, Spots of Time
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 Nalle Hukkataival 9A Burden of Dreams
9 Nico Pelorson 9A Soudain Seul
10 Daniel Woods 9A Return of the Sleepwalker
11 Camille Coudert 9A Soudain Seul
12 Vadim Timonov 9A Blackflip SDS
13 Charles Albert 9A L’Ombre du Voyageur
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 Hamish McArthur 9A Megatron
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+ 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
23 Giuliano Cameroni 8C+ Poison the Well, REM, Ephyra, Off the Wagon Low, Curve Ball
24 Niccolò Ceria 8C+ Ephyra, Gioia, La Révolutionnaire Assis, Off the Wagon Low, Pneuma
25 Ryuichi Murai 8C+ United, Nexus, Floatin, Sleepwalker
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 Dai Koyamada 8C+ The Story of Two Worlds (Low Start), Nayuta
35 Daisuke Ichimiya 8C+ Creature from the Black Lagoon, United
36 Carlo Traversi 8C+ Creature from the Black Lagoon, The Dark Side
37 Nathan Williams 8C+ Sleepwalker, Creature from the Black Lagoon
38 Pablo Hammack 8C+ Sleepwalker, Creature from the Black Lagoon
39 Kazuma Ise 8C+ Hallucination, Epitaph
40 Yuta Imaizumi 8C+ Nayuta, Floatin
41 Florian Wientjes 8C+ Off the Wagon Low, Floatin
42 Keenan Takahashi 8C+ Insomniac, The Dark Side
43 Sam Weir 8C+ REM, Fuck the System
44 Owen Whaley 8C+ Grand Illusion, Sosa
45 Adam Shahar 8C+ Sleepwalker, The Process
46 Christian Core 8C+ Gioia
47 Rustam Gelmanov 8C+ Hypnotized Minds
48 Paul Robinson 8C+ REM
49 Dylan Barks 8C+ Creature from the Black Lagoon
50 Taylor McNeill 8C+ Moonlight Sonata
51 Sergii Topishko 8C+ Off the Wagon Low
52 Ignacio Sánchez González 8C+ Daños Con-Laterales
53 Clément Lechaptois 8C+ Fuck the System
54 Tim Reuser 8C+ La Révolutionnaire Assis
55 Colin Duffy 8C+ Bookkeeping
56 Michiel Nieuwenhuijsen 8C+ La Révolutionnaire Assis
57 Liam Andrews-Bancroft 8C+ Insomniac
58 Martin Keller 8C+ Gateway
59 Zander Waller 8C+ Sleepwalker
60 Kai Whaley 8C+ Sleepwalker
61 Stefano Carnati 8C+ Vecchio Leone SDS
62 Lasse von Freier 8C+ Off the Wagon Low
63 Pablo Zamora 8C+ Muerte por Asfixia
64 Keiichiro Korenaga 8C+ Nexus
65 Jabee Kim 8C+ La Révolutionnaire Assis
66 David Fitzgerald 8C+ Big Z
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 Lee Sungsu 8C+ The Process
73 Stefan Hochbaum 8C+ Obsidan
74 Jun Shibanuma 8C+ Sleepwalker
75 Simone Tentori 8C+ Ephyra
76 Eli Perry 8C+ Grand Illusion